Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 118
"You did not clean it, at all events," said the king's son.
Who acts: You, son · What happens: not clean, say · To what, where: 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: who acts (You, son), 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 clean | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 clean | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clean | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 clean | advmod |
| 5 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 clean | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 events | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 events | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 events | det |
| 10 | events | event | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clean | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clean | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 clean | 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 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not clean in a quote | past · do-support | You | byre | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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