Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 42
In they walked without an "If you please" or "By your leave."
Who acts: scales · What happens: walk
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), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 walked | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 please | case |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 please | det |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 please | punct |
| 7 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 9 please | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 please | nsubj |
| 9 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 walked | discourse |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 please | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 leave | cc |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 13 | By | by | ADP | _ | 15 leave | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leave | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | scales = scale | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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