Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 18
And with that he hit it a whack with his stick and out hopped a penny.
Who acts: Donald · What happens: hit, hop · To what, where: money, penny
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hit | cc |
| 2 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 5 hit | mark |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 hit | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hit | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 whack | det |
| 8 | whack | whack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stick | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 stick | nmod:poss |
| 11 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 hopped | cc |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 14 hopped | advmod |
| 14 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hit | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 penny | det |
| 16 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hopped | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | Donald | money | with Donald's stick | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient whack=Result with stick=Instrument | |||
| 2 | hop | past | Donald not said here | a penny | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme penny=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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