Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 5

He had a hovel over his head and a strip of grass that was barely enough to keep his one cow, Daisy, from starving, and, though she did her best, it was but seldom that Donald got a drink of milk or a roll of butter from Daisy.

Who acts: man, cow, hovel · What happens: have, be, starve, do, roll · To what, where: hovel, head, best, butter

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 (man, cow, hovel), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hovel	det
4	hovel	hovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 strip	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 strip	det
10	strip	strip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 grass	case
12	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strip	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 keep	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 keep	cop
15	barely	barely	ADV	_	16 enough	advmod
16	enough	enough	ADV	_	18 keep	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 keep	mark
18	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 grass	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cow	nmod:poss
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 cow	nummod
21	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 keep	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 Daisy	punct
23	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 cow	appos
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 starving	punct
25	from	from	SCONJ	_	26 starving	mark
26	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 keep	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 did	cc
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 did	punct
30	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 did	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 did	nsubj
32	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 best	nmod:poss
34	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 did	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 got	punct
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 got	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 got	cop
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 got	cc
39	seldom	seldom	ADV	_	42 got	advmod
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 got	mark
41	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 got	nsubj
42	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 drink	det
44	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 got	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 milk	case
46	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 drink	nmod
47	or	or	CCONJ	_	49 roll	cc
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 roll	det
49	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 milk	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 butter	case
51	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 roll	nmod
52	from	from	ADP	_	53 Daisy	case
53	Daisy	Daisy	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 butter	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	man	a hovel	man's head and a strip of grass		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hovel=Patient
2	is	past	man not said here			enough, keep property	tree rules
3	starve	gerund	man not said here				tree rules
4	do	past	cow	cow's best			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality
5	is	past	hovel			get, seldom property	tree rules
6	roll			butter from Daisy			nom roll «event 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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