Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 68
"Here are a couple of vagabonds selling hides at their weight in gold," said the cobbler.
Who acts: couple, cobbler · What happens: be, sell, say · To what, where: hides, weight · 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 (couple, cobbler), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 selling | parataxis |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 couple | det |
| 5 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 selling | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 vagabonds | case |
| 7 | vagabonds | vagabond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 couple | nmod |
| 8 | selling | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 said | ccomp |
| 9 | hides | hide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 selling | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 weight | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 weight | nmod:poss |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 selling | obl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 weight | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 selling | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 selling | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cobbler | det |
| 19 | cobbler | cobbler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sell in a quote | gerund | a couple of vagabonds | hides | people's weight in gold | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent hide=Theme at weight=Asset | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cobbler | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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