Celtic Fairy Tales, Hudden and Dudden and Donald O'neary, sentence 89
Donald held his peace, but after a while he heard the glasses clink, and Hudden singing away at the top of his voice.
Who acts: Donald, glasses, Hudden · What happens: hold, hear, clink, sing away, pacify · To what, where: peace, top · 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, glasses, Hudden), 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 | Donald | Donald | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 peace | nmod:poss |
| 4 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 9 while | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 while | det |
| 9 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 held | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 glasses | det |
| 13 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 clink | nsubj |
| 14 | clink | clink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 singing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 singing | cc |
| 17 | Hudden | Hudden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 singing | nsubj |
| 18 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 heard | advcl |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 singing | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 top | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 top | det |
| 22 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 singing | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 voice | nmod:poss |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 top | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | Donald | Donald's peace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Donald | while | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | clink | present | the glasses | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing away speech: express | gerund | Hudden | the top of Donald's voice | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at top=Location | |||
| 5 | pacify | Donald | nom peace «state transitive»: poss=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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