Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 11
"I'll trouble you not to do that again," said the wren.
Who acts: wren, you · What happens: trouble, not do, say · To what, where: trouble · 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 (wren, you), 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 | _ | 4 trouble | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 trouble | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 trouble | aux |
| 4 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 trouble | acl:relcl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 trouble | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 trouble | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wren | det |
| 15 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trouble in a quote | future | the wren = wren | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | to-infinitive | you | trouble | again | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the wren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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