Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 141
Off they trudged, with a light heart and an eager step.
Who acts: cattle · What happens: trudge · To what, where: light heart
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 (cattle), 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 | Off | off | ADP | _ | 3 trudged | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trudged | nsubj |
| 3 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 heart | punct |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 heart | det |
| 7 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | compound |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trudged | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 step | cc |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 step | det |
| 11 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 step | amod |
| 12 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heart | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trudged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trudge | past | cattle | a light heart and a eager step | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=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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