Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 148
As for Donald O'Neary, he had cattle and sheep all his days to his heart's content.
Who acts: Donald · What happens: have · To what, where: cattle
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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 Donald | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 4 | O'Neary | O'Neary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Donald | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Donald | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 had | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sheep | cc |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cattle | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 days | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 days | nmod:poss |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cattle | appos |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 content | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 content | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 18 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Donald | cattle and sheep | as Donald; to Donald's heart's content | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Patient |
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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