Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 14
Just before he got to the fair, he made several slits in the hide, put a penny in each slit, walked into the best inn of the town as bold as if it belonged to him, and, hanging the hide up to a nail in the wall, sat down.
Who acts: Donald, penny · What happens: get, make, put, walk, belong, hang · To what, where: several slits, hide, penny, slit, best inn, 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 (Donald, 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 fair | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fair | det |
| 7 | fair | fair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 11 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 slits | amod |
| 12 | slits | slit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 made | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hide | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hide | det |
| 15 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 put | punct |
| 17 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 made | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 penny | det |
| 19 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 slit | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 slit | det |
| 22 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 put | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 walked | punct |
| 24 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 inn | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 inn | det |
| 27 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 inn | amod |
| 28 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 walked | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 town | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 town | det |
| 31 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 inn | nmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 bold | case |
| 33 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 walked | obl |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 belonged | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 belonged | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 belonged | nsubj |
| 37 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 walked | advcl |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 belonged | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 hide | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 hide | cc |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 hanging | punct |
| 43 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 hide | advcl |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 hide | det |
| 45 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 hide | compound:prt |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 nail | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 nail | det |
| 49 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hide | obl |
| 50 | in | in | ADP | _ | 52 wall | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 wall | det |
| 52 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 hide | obl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 sat | punct |
| 54 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 55 | down | down | ADP | _ | 54 sat | compound:prt |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Donald | to the fair result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to fair=Result | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Donald | several slits | the hide | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slit=Product | |||
| 3 | put | infinitive | Donald not said here | a penny | each slit | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent penny=Theme in slit=Destination | |||
| 4 | walk | past | Donald not said here | into the best inn of the town result; as bold | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into inn=Result | ||||
| 5 | belong | past | penny | Donald | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hang | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 7 | hide up | present | Donald not said here | the wall | to a nail | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wall=Location | |||
| 8 | sit down | past | Donald not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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