Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 59
Fine fresh hides to sell!"
Who acts: Fine fresh · What happens: hide, sell
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 (Fine fresh), 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 | Fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fresh | amod |
| 2 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hides | nsubj |
| 3 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 sell | mark |
| 5 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hides | xcomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 hides | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | Fine fresh | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell | to-infinitive | Fine fresh not said here | 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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