Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 109
"Come over," says Auburn Mary, "and lay down your weariness."
Who acts: Auburn Mary · What happens: come over, say, lay down · To what, where: weariness · 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 (Auburn Mary), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | ccomp |
| 3 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 Come | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Auburn | Auburn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mary | compound |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 says | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mary | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mary | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lay | cc |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 says | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 lay | compound:prt |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 weariness | nmod:poss |
| 15 | weariness | weariness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come over in a quote | infinitive | over property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | Auburn Mary | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lay down in a quote | infinitive | Auburn Mary not said here | your weariness | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weariness=Result |
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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