Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 119

"Well, well!" says the giant, "since thou wert so active to-day, thou wilt get to this time to-morrow to thatch this byre with birds' down, from birds with no two feathers of one colour."

Who acts: thou · What happens: say, get, thatch · To what, where: giant, 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 (thou), 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	_	7 says	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	well	well	INTJ	_	7 says	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 well	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 says	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wert	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 wert	punct
12	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 wert	mark
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	14 wert	nsubj
14	wert	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 active	advmod
16	active	active	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wert	xcomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 day	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 to	punct
19	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 active	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
21	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	23 get	nsubj
22	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wert	conj
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 morrow	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 thatch	mark
31	thatch	thatch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 byre	det
33	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 thatch	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 down	case
35	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 down	nmod:poss
36	'	's	PART	_	35 birds	case
37	down	down	ADV	_	31 thatch	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 birds	punct
39	from	from	ADP	_	40 birds	case
40	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 thatch	conj
41	with	with	ADP	_	44 feathers	case
42	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 feathers	det
43	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 feathers	nummod
44	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 birds	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 colour	case
46	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 colour	nummod
47	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 feathers	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
2	get in a quote	future	thou		time	to morrow result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to morrow=Result
3	thatch in a quote	to-infinitive	thou not said here	this byre			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent byre=Destination with down=Theme

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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