Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 12
He struck again, and he struck off two grains.
Who acts: wren · What happens: strike, strike off · To what, where: two grains
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 struck | nsubj |
| 2 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 struck | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 struck | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 struck | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 struck | nsubj |
| 7 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 struck | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 struck | compound:prt |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 grains | nummod |
| 10 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 struck | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | wren | again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | strike off | past | wren | two grains | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Patient |
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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