Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 47
Hides are worth their weight in gold in the market just now."
Who acts: Hides · What happens: be · To what, where: gold
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 (Hides), 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 | Hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 worth | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 worth | cop |
| 3 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 weight | nmod:poss |
| 5 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worth | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gold | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worth | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 market | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 market | det |
| 10 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 worth | obl |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 now | advmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 market | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Hides | gold | in the market; worth property | tree rules |
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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