Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 100

The giant's wrath kindled, and he said: "Before thou gett'st her thou must do the three things that I ask thee to do."

Who acts: wrath, thou, three things · What happens: kindle, say, gett'st, do, ask · To what, where: wife, three things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wrath, thou, three things), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrath	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kindled	nsubj
5	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kindled	conj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 gett'st	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 gett'st	punct
12	Before	before	SCONJ	_	14 gett'st	mark
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 gett'st	nsubj
14	gett'st	gett'st	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 do	advcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gett'st	obj
16	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 do	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 do	aux
18	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 things	det
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 things	nummod
21	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 do	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 ask	obj
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 ask	nsubj
24	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 things	acl:relcl
25	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 ask	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 do	mark
27	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 ask	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 kindled	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 kindled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kindle	past	the giant's wrath		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past	wrath		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	gett'st in a quote	past	thou	wife	tree rules
4	do in a quote	must	thou	the three things	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
5	ask speech: ask in a quote	present	wrath	the three things	tree rules
6	do not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the three things not said here		vn act-114-1 «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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