Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 155
Put all my flesh into this clean cloth by the side of the spring at the roots of the tree.
Who acts: you · What happens: put · To what, where: flesh, clean cloth
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), 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 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 flesh | det:predet |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 4 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cloth | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 cloth | det |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cloth | amod |
| 8 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 side | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 side | det |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spring | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spring | det |
| 14 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 roots | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roots | det |
| 17 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tree | det |
| 20 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roots | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | my flesh | this clean cloth | by the side of the spring; at the roots of the tree | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flesh=Theme by side=Destination |
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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