Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 41
And he couldn't finish because a piece had stuck to the scales.
Who acts: Donald · What happens: not finish, stick · To what, where: 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 finish | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finish | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 finish | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 finish | advmod |
| 5 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 stuck | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 piece | det |
| 8 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuck | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stuck | aux |
| 10 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 finish | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 scales | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 scales | det |
| 13 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stuck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not finish | could | Donald | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | stick | past · perfect · passive | a piece | to the scales | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to scale=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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