Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 127

"Come over and lay down your weariness on this pretty hillock," says the giant's daughter.

Who acts: daughter · What happens: come over, lay down, say · To what, where: weariness, pretty hillock · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (daughter), 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	_	2 Come	punct
2	Come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 says	ccomp
3	over	over	ADV	_	2 Come	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lay	cc
5	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Come	conj
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lay	compound:prt
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 weariness	nmod:poss
8	weariness	weariness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 hillock	case
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 hillock	det
11	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hillock	amod
12	hillock	hillock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Come	punct
15	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 daughter	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 giant	case
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 says	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come over in a quote	infinitive				over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay down in a quote	infinitive		your weariness	this pretty hillock		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent weariness=Theme on hillock=Destination
3	say speech: assert	present	the giant's daughter				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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