Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 130

"It's only the worst I could bring up with me," said Donald O'Neary; "the others were so fat, there was no driving them.

Who acts: turn, worst, Donald, others · What happens: be, bring up, say, drive · To what, where: no, Hudden · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (turn, worst, Donald, others), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 worst	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 worst	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 worst	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 worst	det
6	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 bring	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bring	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 bring	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 bring	punct
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
17	O'Neary	O'Neary	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Donald	flat
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 fat	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 fat	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 others	det
21	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fat	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fat	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 fat	advmod
24	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 was	punct
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fat	advcl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 was	obj
29	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 no	acl
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 driving	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	turn			bad property	tree rules
2	bring up in a quote	could	the worst			with Donald	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with i=Instrument
3	say speech: assert	past	Donald				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	past	the others			fat property	tree rules
5	be in a quote	past	the others not said here	no	there		vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot no=Theme
6	drive in a quote	gerund		Hudden			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

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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