Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 30
But Hudden had put a lump of butter at the bottom, and so the last piece of gold stuck fast to the scales when he took them back to Hudden.
Who acts: last piece, Donald · What happens: put, stick, take · To what, where: Hudden, bottom
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 (last 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 put | cc |
| 2 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lump | det |
| 6 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 butter | case |
| 8 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lump | nmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 bottom | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bottom | det |
| 11 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stuck | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stuck | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 stuck | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 piece | det |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 piece | amod |
| 17 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stuck | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 piece | nmod |
| 20 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 put | conj |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 stuck | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 scales | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 scales | det |
| 24 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stuck | obl |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 took | advmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stuck | advcl |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | obj |
| 29 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 took | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 Hudden | case |
| 31 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 back | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · perfect · passive | Hudden | the bottom | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset lump=Goal | ||||
| 2 | stick | participle | the last piece of gold | to the scales; fast property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to scale=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Donald | Hudden | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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