Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 144
From the foot to the first branch was five hundred feet.
What happens: be · To what, where: hundred feet, foot
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: 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foot | det |
| 3 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feet | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 branch | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branch | det |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 branch | amod |
| 7 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foot | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feet | cop |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 feet | nummod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | hundred feet | the foot to the first branch | tree rules |
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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