Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 145
But if he jumped first, Hudden wasn't long behind.
Who acts: Donald, Hudden · What happens: jump, be
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, Hudden), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 jumped | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 jumped | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 jumped | nsubj |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 jumped | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
| 7 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 behind | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 behind | cop |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 long | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 behind | advmod |
| 11 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 4 jumped | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | past | Donald | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Hudden | behind, long property | tree rules |
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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