Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 24
Hasn't it kept me and mine for years?" and with that Donald hit the hide another whack and out jumped a second penny.
Who acts: piece, Donald · What happens: not keep, hit, jump · To what, where: me, hide, second 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 (piece, 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 | Has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 kept | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | nsubj |
| 4 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 kept | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mine | cc |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 kept | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kept | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hit | cc |
| 13 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 16 hit | mark |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 hit | mark |
| 15 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 kept | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hide | det |
| 18 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hit | obj |
| 19 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 whack | det |
| 20 | whack | whack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hit | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 jumped | cc |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 23 jumped | advmod |
| 23 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hit | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 penny | det |
| 25 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 penny | amod |
| 26 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 jumped | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | present | piece | me | year | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | hit in a quote | past | Donald | the hide | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent hide=Patient whack=Result | ||||
| 3 | jump in a quote | past | Donald not said here | a second penny | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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