Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 142
Early in the morning the king's son went where the tree was, and that tree was not hard to hit upon.
Who acts: son, tree · What happens: go, be, not be, hit
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 (son, tree), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 went | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 morning | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 morning | det |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | nsubj |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 was | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 was | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 went | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hard | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hard | cc |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 tree | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hard | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 hard | cop |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hard | advmod |
| 20 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 went | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 hit | mark |
| 22 | hit | hit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hard | xcomp |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 hit | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the king's son | morning | early property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | be | past | the tree | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | that tree | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hit | to-infinitive | that tree not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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