Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 101
O'Donnell laughed and paid him the six pieces.
Who acts: O'Donnell · What happens: laugh, pay · To what, where: O'Donnell
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (O'Donnell), 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 | O'Donnell | O'Donnell | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pieces | det |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pieces | nummod |
| 8 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 paid | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | O'Donnell | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pay | past | O'Donnell not said here | O'Donnell | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient piece=Asset |
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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