Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 7
Daisy, poor thing, they never thought of; she was just a bag of bones.
Who acts: neighbours, Daisy · What happens: not think of, be · To what, where: poor thing, bag
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 (neighbours, Daisy), 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 | Daisy | Daisy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thing | amod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 8 thought | advmod |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 thought | compound:prt |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bag | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bag | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bag | cop |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 bag | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bag | det |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thing | appos |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bones | case |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 bag | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think of speech: other | past | neighbours = neighbour | poor thing not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Daisy | a bag | of bones | 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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