Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 139
The eggs thou wilt find in the nest.
Who acts: eggs · What happens: find · To what, where: nest
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 (eggs), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 eggs | det |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 find | nsubj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 eggs | nmod |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 nest | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 nest | det |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | the eggs thou | the nest | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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