Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 158
"How could I kill you," asked the king's son, "after what you have done for me?"
Who acts: son, you · What happens: kill, ask, do · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 kill | advmod |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | nsubj |
| 5 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kill | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kill | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 16 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 20 done | mark |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 done | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 done | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 done | aux |
| 20 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 kill | advcl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 done | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill in a quote | could | the king's son = son | you | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | for the giant's daughter = daughter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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