Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 13
He thought and he thought, and the next day you could have seen him trudging off early to the fair, Daisy's hide over his shoulder, every penny he had jingling in his pockets.
Who acts: Donald, you, penny · What happens: think, see, trudge off, have, jingle · To what, where: Donald, fair, pockets
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 (Donald, you, penny), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 thought | cc |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seen | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seen | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 day | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 day | amod |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seen | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 seen | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seen | aux |
| 14 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 seen | obj |
| 16 | trudging | trudge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 seen | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 trudging | compound:prt |
| 18 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 trudging | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fair | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fair | det |
| 21 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trudging | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hide | punct |
| 23 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 hide | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Daisy | case |
| 25 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fair | appos |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 shoulder | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 28 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hide | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 had | punct |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 penny | det |
| 31 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 had | nsubj |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 had | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | conj |
| 34 | jingling | jingle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 had | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 pockets | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 37 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 jingling | obl | |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | Donald | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Donald | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | could · perfect | you | Donald | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | trudge off | gerund | you not said here | the fair | early property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fair=Destination | |||
| 5 | have | past | every penny | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | jingle | gerund | every penny not said here | Donald's pockets | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location |
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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