Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 29
When Donald was safe at home, he pulled out his pocketful of bright gold and began to weigh each piece in the scales.
Who acts: Donald · What happens: be, pull out, begin, weigh · To what, where: home, pocketful, piece, 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 safe | mark |
| 2 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | cop |
| 4 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 safe | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pulled | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pulled | nsubj |
| 9 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 safe | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pulled | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 pocketful | nmod:poss |
| 12 | pocketful | pocketful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pulled | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 gold | case |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 gold | amod |
| 15 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pocketful | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 began | cc |
| 17 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pulled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 weigh | mark |
| 19 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 began | xcomp |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 piece | det |
| 21 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 weigh | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 scales | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scales | det |
| 24 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 weigh | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Donald | home | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pull out | past | Donald | Donald's pocketful of bright gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | Donald not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | weigh | to-infinitive | Donald not said here | each piece | the scales | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme piece=Value |
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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