Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 122
He was running after them till the sweat was blinding him.
Who acts: son, sweat · What happens: run, blind · To what, where: son
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, sweat), 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 | 3 running | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 running | aux |
| 3 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 running | obl |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 10 blinding | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sweat | det |
| 8 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blinding | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blinding | aux |
| 10 | blinding | blind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 running | advcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 blinding | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 running | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past · progressive | son | after birds = bird | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blind | past · progressive | the sweat | son | tree rules |
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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