Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 131

Faith, too, it's little wonder they didn't care to leave, with grass as far as you could see, and as sweet and juicy as fresh butter."

Who acts: other, Hudden, you · What happens: be, not care, leave, see · To what, where: little wonder, grass

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 (other, Hudden, you), 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	Faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Faith	punct
3	too	too	ADV	_	1 Faith	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wonder	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wonder	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wonder	cop
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wonder	amod
8	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faith	conj
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 care	nsubj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 care	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 care	advmod
12	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wonder	acl:relcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 leave	mark
14	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 care	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grass	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 grass	case
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 leave	obj
18	as	as	ADV	_	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 leave	advmod
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 far	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 juicy	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 juicy	cc
26	as	as	ADP	_	27 sweet	case
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 juicy	amod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 juicy	cc
29	juicy	juicy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Faith	conj
30	as	as	ADP	_	32 butter	case
31	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 butter	amod
32	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 juicy	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Faith	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Faith	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	other	little wonder		tree rules
2	not care	past · do-support	Hudden	little wonder not said here		tree rules
3	leave	to-infinitive	Hudden not said here	grass	far property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
4	see	could	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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