Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 160
You must climb the tree, or we are lost; and to climb the tree you must do as I say."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: climb, lose, do, say · To what, where: tree, we · 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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climb | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lost | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 lost | cc |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 lost | aux:pass |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 climb | parataxis |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 climb | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 climb | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 climb | mark |
| 14 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climb | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 climb | obj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | aux |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 tree | acl:relcl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 say | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 say | nsubj |
| 22 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 climb | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | must | You | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | present · passive | we | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | climb | to-infinitive | You not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | must | you | the tree not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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