Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 123
About mid-day who should come but Auburn Mary.
What happens: come
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: 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 | About | about | ADP | _ | 2 mid-day | case |
| 2 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 come | nsubj |
| 4 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 Auburn | cc |
| 7 | Auburn | Auburn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 come | conj |
| 8 | Mary | Mary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Auburn | flat |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | about mid-day | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about mid-day=Location |
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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