Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 126

"There fell but these two blackbirds, and both of one colour."

What happens: fall

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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 fell	expl
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 blackbirds	cc
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 blackbirds	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 blackbirds	nummod
7	blackbirds	blackbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 colour	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 colour	cc
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 colour	nsubj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 colour	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 colour	nummod
13	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	past				there		of one colour	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of colour=Initial_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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