Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 73

"What's the matter, friends?" said he, as he saw them tearing along, their hats knocked in, and their coats torn off, and their faces black and blue. "

Who acts: Donald, dogs, coats · What happens: be, say, see, tear along, knock in, tear off · To what, where: matter, dogs, hats · 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 (Donald, dogs, coats), 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	_	10 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 matter	appos
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 friends	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 saw	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 said	parataxis
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 saw	obj
17	tearing	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 saw	xcomp
18	along	along	ADV	_	17 tearing	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hats	punct
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 hats	nmod:poss
21	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tearing	obl
22	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 hats	acl
23	in	in	ADP	_	22 knocked	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 torn	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 torn	cc
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 coats	nmod:poss
27	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 torn	nsubj
28	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 saw	conj
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 torn	compound:prt
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 black	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 black	cc
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 faces	nmod:poss
33	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 black	nsubj
34	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 blue	cc
36	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 black	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the matter		tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	Donald			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	Donald	dogs = dog		tree rules
4	tear along	gerund	dogs = dog not said here	dogs's hats	along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	knock in	participle		dogs's hats not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
6	tear off	participle	dogs's coats			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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