Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 135
"Somebody thatched it," says the giant.
Who acts: Somebody, giant · What happens: thatch, say · To what, where: byre · 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 (Somebody, giant), 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 thatched | punct |
| 2 | Somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 thatched | nsubj |
| 3 | thatched | thatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 says | nsubj |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thatched | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 thatched | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 thatched | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thatch in a quote | past | Somebody | byre | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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