Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 144
"Where? where?" cried Hudden, and "Don't be greedy!" cried Dudden, as he jumped his hardest to be up first with the fat cattle.
Who acts: Donald · What happens: cry, not be, jump up · To what, where: hardest · 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 (Donald), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 cried | advmod |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 2 Where | conj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cried | cc |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 greedy | punct |
| 12 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 greedy | aux |
| 13 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 greedy | advmod |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 greedy | cop |
| 15 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cried | parataxis |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 greedy | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 greedy | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 19 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | flat |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 jumped | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 jumped | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 jumped | nsubj |
| 23 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cried | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 hardest | nmod:poss |
| 25 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 jumped | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 up | mark |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 up | cop |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 jumped | compound:prt |
| 29 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 jumped | advmod |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 cattle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cattle | det |
| 32 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cattle | amod |
| 33 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jumped | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | infinitive · do-support | greedy property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | jump up | past | Donald | Donald's hardest | with the fat cattle; first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hard=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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