Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 103
"Now," says the giant, "a hundred cattle are stabled here, and it has not been cleansed for seven years.
What happens: say, stable, not cleanse · To what, where: giant, hundred cattle, byre · 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: 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 says | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
| 5 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 giant | det |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 says | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stabled | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 stabled | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cattle | det |
| 11 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 cattle | nummod |
| 12 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stabled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stabled | aux:pass |
| 14 | stabled | stable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 says | conj |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stabled | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 cleansed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cleansed | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 cleansed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cleansed | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 cleansed | advmod |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 cleansed | aux:pass |
| 22 | cleansed | cleanse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stabled | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 24 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cleansed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stable in a quote | present · passive | a hundred cattle | here | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | ||||
| 3 | not cleanse in a quote | present · perfect · passive | byre | year | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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