Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 120
The king's son was on foot before the sun; he caught up his bow and his quiver of arrows to kill the birds.
Who acts: son, arrows · What happens: be, catch up, kill, quiver · To what, where: foot, bow, birds
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 (son, arrows), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foot | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 foot | cop |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 foot | case |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 foot | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 caught | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 caught | nsubj |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 foot | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 caught | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bow | nmod:poss |
| 16 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 quiver | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 quiver | nmod:poss |
| 19 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bow | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 arrows | case |
| 21 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 quiver | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 kill | mark |
| 23 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caught | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 birds | det |
| 25 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 kill | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 foot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king's son | foot | before the sun | tree rules | |||
| 2 | catch up | past | son | son's bow and son's quiver of arrows | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kill | to-infinitive | son not said here | the birds | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 4 | quiver | arrows | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=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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