Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 87

As for Donald, you may be sure his leave wasn't asked, but he was lumped down at the inn door for all the world as if he had been a sack of potatoes.

Who acts: you, Donald · What happens: be, not ask, lump down · To what, where: leave, Donald, inn door, sack

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 (you, Donald), 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	As	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	3 Donald	case
2	for	for	ADP	_	1 As	fixed
3	Donald	Donald	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sure	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Donald	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sure	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 sure	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 sure	cop
8	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 leave	nmod:poss
10	leave	leave	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	aux:pass
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 asked	advmod
13	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sure	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lumped	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 lumped	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lumped	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lumped	aux:pass
18	lumped	lump	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 sure	conj
19	down	down	ADP	_	18 lumped	compound:prt
20	at	at	ADP	_	23 door	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 door	det
22	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	compound
23	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lumped	obl
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 world	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 world	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 world	det
27	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 door	nmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 sack	mark
29	if	if	SCONJ	_	34 sack	mark
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 sack	nsubj
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sack	aux
32	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 sack	cop
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 sack	det
34	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lumped	advcl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 potatoes	case
36	potatoes	potato	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sack	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	may	you			as Donald; sure property	tree rules
2	not ask speech: ask	past · passive		Donald's leave			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	lump down	past · passive		Donald	the inn door for all world		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	is a	past · perfect	Donald	a sack		of potatoes	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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