Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 4
For just between their two farms there lived a poor man by the name of Donald O'Neary.
What happens: live, name · To what, where: poor man, Donald
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 6 farms | case |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 farms | advmod |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 farms | case |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 farms | nmod:poss |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 farms | nummod |
| 6 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lived | obl |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lived | advmod |
| 8 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 name | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 name | det |
| 14 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Donald | case |
| 16 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 name | nmod |
| 17 | O'Neary | O'Neary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Donald | flat |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | a poor man | there | for names's two farms; by the name of Donald | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 2 | name | Donald | nom name «communication transitive»: of=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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