Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 147
Maybe they got too fat, like the cattle.
Who acts: Hudden · What happens: get
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 (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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 fat | advmod |
| 5 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cattle | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 cattle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cattle | det |
| 9 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Hudden | like the cattle; fat, maybe property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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