Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 141
Not one must be burst or broken, and there are five in the nest."
Who acts: five · What happens: burst, break, be · To what, where: one
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 (five), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 one | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 burst | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 burst | aux:pass |
| 5 | burst | burst | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 broken | cc |
| 7 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 burst | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 are | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 are | cc |
| 10 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 11 are | expl |
| 11 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 burst | conj |
| 12 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 are | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 nest | det |
| 15 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 five | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burst | must · passive | one | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | be | present | five in the nest | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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