Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 122

Off they went, with a light step and an easy heart, but when they were near home, who should they see but Donald O'Neary, and all around him the cows were grazing, and the calves were kicking up their heels and butting their heads together.

Who acts: scales, home, cows, calves · What happens: go, be, see, graze, kick up, butt · To what, where: home, heels, heads

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scales, home, cows, calves), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Off	off	ADP	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 step	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 step	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 step	det
7	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 step	amod
8	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 heart	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 heart	det
11	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 heart	amod
12	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 step	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 home	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 home	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 home	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 home	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 home	cop
18	near	near	ADP	_	19 home	case
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 see	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 see	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 see	aux
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 see	nsubj
24	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 home	parataxis
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 Donald	cc
26	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 see	conj
27	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Donald	flat
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 grazing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 grazing	cc
30	all	all	ADV	_	36 grazing	advmod
31	around	around	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 all	nmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cows	det
34	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 grazing	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 grazing	aux
36	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 kicking	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 kicking	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 calves	det
40	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 kicking	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 kicking	aux
42	kicking	kick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 kicking	compound:prt
44	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 heels	nmod:poss
45	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 kicking	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 butting	cc
47	butting	butt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 kicking	conj
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 heads	nmod:poss
49	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 butting	obj
50	together	together	ADV	_	47 butting	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	scales = scale			with a light step and a easy heart	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with step=Beneficiary
2	is	past	scales = scale		home		tree rules
3	see	should	home				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	graze	past · progressive	the cows			all property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	kick up	past · progressive	the calves	scales's heels			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent heel=Patient
6	butt	gerund	the calves not said here	scales's heads		together property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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