Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 28
Hudden stared and Hudden scratched his head, but he lent the scales.
Who acts: Hudden, Donald · What happens: stare, scratch, lend · To what, where: head, scales
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, 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 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stared | nsubj |
| 2 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 scratched | cc |
| 4 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | nsubj |
| 5 | scratched | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scratched | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lent | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 lent | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lent | nsubj |
| 11 | lent | lend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stared | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scales | det |
| 13 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 lent | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | Hudden | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | scratch | past | Hudden | Donald's head | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lend | past | Donald | the scales | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme |
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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