Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 154
Be sure and stand on each bone, leave none untouched; if you do, it will stay behind.
Who acts: you, tree · What happens: be, stand, leave, do, stay · To what, where: bone, none
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 (you, 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sure | cop |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 stand | cc |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 bone | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bone | det |
| 7 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stand | conj |
| 10 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 leave | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stay | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 do | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 stay | aux |
| 19 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sure | conj |
| 20 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 19 stay | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | you not said here | each bone | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bone=Location | ||||
| 3 | leave | infinitive | you not said here | none | untouched property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Theme | |||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | stay | future | tree | behind property | 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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