Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 38
"Here are my scales that he borrowed, and here's a gold piece still sticking to them."
Who acts: scales, Donald, gold piece · What happens: be, borrow, stick · To what, where: scales, gold piece
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 (scales, Donald, gold piece), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 scales | nmod:poss |
| 5 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 borrowed | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 borrowed | nsubj |
| 8 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scales | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 piece | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 piece | cc |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 piece | advmod |
| 12 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 piece | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | compound |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | conj |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 sticking | advmod |
| 17 | sticking | stick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 piece | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sticking | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my scales | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | borrow in a quote | past | Donald | my scales not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | my scales not said here | a gold piece | here | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stick in a quote | gerund | a gold piece not said here | scales = scale | still | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to they=Co-Patient |
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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