Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 136
"You did not thatch it," says the king's son.
Who acts: You, son · What happens: not 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 (You, son), 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 | _ | 5 thatch | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 thatch | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thatch | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 thatch | advmod |
| 5 | thatch | thatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thatch | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thatch | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thatch | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not thatch in a quote | past · do-support | You | byre | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the king's son | 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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