Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 138
"True for you, Hudden, though 'tis a bad example you set me.
Who acts: tis · What happens: set · To what, where: Donald
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 (tis), 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 | _ | 2 True | punct |
| 2 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 True | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hudden | punct |
| 6 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 True | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 set | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 15 set | mark |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 tis | punct |
| 10 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 set | nsubj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 example | det |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 example | amod |
| 13 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tis | nmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 set | nsubj |
| 15 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 True | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 set | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 True | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | past | tis a bad example | Donald and friends = donald | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result |
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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