Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 168
You left my little finger on the tree without touching it, and I have but nine fingers."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: leave, touch, have · To what, where: little finger, tree, finger, nine fingers
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 | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 finger | nmod:poss |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 finger | amod |
| 5 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obl |
| 9 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 10 touching | mark |
| 10 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 left | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 touching | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 left | parataxis |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 fingers | cc |
| 17 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 fingers | nummod |
| 18 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | You | my little finger | the tree | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent finger=Theme on tree=Location | |||
| 2 | touch | gerund | You not said here | finger | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I | nine fingers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
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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