Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 85
It's heavy he is for the little he had to eat."
Who acts: inn, Fine fresh, little · What happens: be, have, eat · To what, where: little
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 (inn, Fine fresh, little), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 heavy | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 heavy | cop |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 little | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 little | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 little | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 little | det |
| 8 | little | little | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heavy | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 little | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 eat | mark |
| 12 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 had | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavy | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | inn | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Fine fresh = fresh | for the little | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Fine fresh = fresh | the little not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | the little not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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