Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 81
There was a meal-sack handy, and into it Hudden and Dudden popped Donald O'Neary, tied him up tight, ran a pole through the knot, and off they started for the Brown Lake of the Bog, each with a pole-end on his shoulder, and Donald O'Neary between.
Who acts: Hudden · What happens: pop, be, run, start · To what, where: Donald, Hudden, pole, knot, each
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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 tied | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 4 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sack | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 meal | punct |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 7 | handy | handy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sack | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 popped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 popped | cc |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 Hudden | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Hudden | nsubj |
| 12 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 popped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Dudden | cc |
| 14 | Dudden | Dudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Hudden | conj |
| 15 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 16 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 popped | obj |
| 17 | O'Neary | O'Neary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Donald | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tied | punct |
| 19 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ran | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tied | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 tied | compound:prt |
| 22 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 19 tied | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
| 24 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 pole | det |
| 26 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 knot | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 knot | det |
| 29 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ran | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 started | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 started | cc |
| 32 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 started | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 started | nsubj |
| 34 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 ran | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 Lake | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Lake | det |
| 37 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Lake | compound |
| 38 | Lake | Lake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 started | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Bog | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Bog | det |
| 41 | Bog | bog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Lake | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 each | punct |
| 43 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 started | obl |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 end | case |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 end | det |
| 46 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 end | compound |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 pole | punct |
| 48 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 each | nmod |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 51 shoulder | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 51 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 end | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 between | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 between | cc |
| 54 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 between | nsubj |
| 55 | O'Neary | O'Neary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 Donald | flat |
| 56 | between | between | ADP | _ | 24 ran | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | past | Donald | into Hudden and Dudden result | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent donald=Patient into hudden=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tie, tight property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | run | past | a pole | the knot | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent pole=Theme through knot=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | start | past | Hudden | each | for the Brown Lake of the Bog | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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