Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 104
I am going from home to-day, and if this byre is not cleaned before night comes, so clean that a golden apple will run from end to end of it, not only thou shalt not get my daughter, but 'tis only a drink of thy fresh, goodly, beautiful blood that will quench my thirst this night."
Who acts: I, golden apple, thou, tis, drink, my · What happens: go, not clean, come, run, not get, drink · To what, where: home, byre, end, daughter, thirst
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 (I, golden apple, thou, tis), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 home | case |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 day | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 comes | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 comes | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 cleaned | mark |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 byre | det |
| 13 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cleaned | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 cleaned | aux:pass |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 cleaned | advmod |
| 16 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 comes | advcl |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 18 night | case |
| 18 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cleaned | obl |
| 19 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 clean | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 clean | advmod |
| 22 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 comes | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 run | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apple | det |
| 25 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 apple | amod |
| 26 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 run | aux |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 clean | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 end | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 get | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 get | advmod |
| 37 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 get | advmod |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 41 get | nsubj |
| 39 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 41 get | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 get | advmod |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 run | parataxis |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 43 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 get | obj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 drink | punct |
| 45 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 50 drink | cc |
| 46 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 tis | punct |
| 47 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 drink | nsubj |
| 48 | only | only | ADV | _ | 50 drink | advmod |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 drink | det |
| 50 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 comes | obl |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 blood | case |
| 52 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 58 blood | nmod:poss |
| 53 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 blood | amod |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 fresh | punct |
| 55 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 blood | amod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 goodly | punct |
| 57 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 blood | amod |
| 58 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 drink | nmod |
| 59 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 61 quench | nsubj |
| 60 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 61 quench | aux |
| 61 | quench | quench | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 drink | acl:relcl |
| 62 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 63 thirst | nmod:poss |
| 63 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 quench | obj |
| 64 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 65 night | det |
| 65 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 quench | obl:unmarked |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 67 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | home | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | not clean a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | this byre | night | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come | present | I not said here | clean property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | run | future | a golden apple | from end; to end of byre | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result | ||||
| 5 | not get | shall | thou | my daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | drink | tis | of thy fresh goodly beautiful blood | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | quench | future | a drink | my thirst | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | thirst | my | nom thirst «state intransitive»: 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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