Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 14
So they arranged a contest to see who was strongest, and the wren brings his twelve birds, and the mouse her tribe.
Who acts: they, wren · What happens: arrange, see, be, bring · To what, where: contest, tribe, twelve birds
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 (they, wren), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 arranged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arranged | nsubj |
| 3 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 contest | det |
| 5 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arranged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 arranged | advcl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 strongest | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 strongest | cop |
| 10 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 see | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brings | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 brings | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wren | det |
| 14 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | nsubj |
| 15 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 arranged | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 birds | nmod:poss |
| 17 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 birds | nummod |
| 18 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brings | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mouse | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 mouse | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 mouse | det |
| 22 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | obl |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tribe | nmod:poss |
| 24 | tribe | tribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arranged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrange | past | they | a contest | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Product | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | they not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | past | strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bring | present | the wren | mouse's tribe | wren's twelve birds | the mouse obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent bird=Destination tribe=Theme |
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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