Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 52

When they came to the fair, each one took a hide over his arm, and there they were walking through the fair, bawling out at the top of their voices: "Hides to sell! hides to sell!"

Who acts: Hudden, one · What happens: come, take, walk, bawl out, hide, sell · To what, where: fair, hide, arm, top · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hudden, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 fair	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fair	det
6	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hide	det
12	hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 arm	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arm	nmod:poss
15	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hide	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 walking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 walking	cc
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 walking	expl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walking	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 walking	aux
21	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 took	conj
22	through	through	ADP	_	24 fair	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fair	det
24	fair	fair	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 walking	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bawling	punct
26	bawling	bawl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 walking	advcl
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 bawling	compound:prt
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bawling	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 voices	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 voices	nmod:poss
33	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 top	nmod
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	36 Hides	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Hides	punct
36	Hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
37	to	to	PART	_	38 sell	mark
38	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hides	csubj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	38 sell	punct
40	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 Hides	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 sell	mark
42	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 hides	xcomp
43	!	!	PUNCT	_	40 hides	punct
44	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 Hides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	Hudden		the fair	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial_Location
2	take	past	each one	a hide	calf's arm	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent hide=Theme clause=Attribute
3	walk	past · progressive	Hudden		the fair; there	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fair=Trajectory
4	bawl out speech: other	gerund	Hudden not said here		the top of Hudden's voices	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hide in a quote	present				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sell in a quote	to-infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	hide in a quote	present				tree rules
8	sell in a quote	to-infinitive				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent

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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