Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 170
I and my two sisters will be arrayed in the same garments, and made like each other, but look at me when my father says, 'Go to thy wife, king's son;' and you will see a hand without a little finger."
Who acts: father, you · What happens: array, make, look, say, go, see · To what, where: I, same garments, hand · 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 (father, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 arrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 sisters | cc |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 sisters | nummod |
| 5 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 I | conj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrayed | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 8 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 garments | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 garments | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 garments | amod |
| 12 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrayed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 made | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrayed | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 each | case |
| 17 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 15 made | obl |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 each | fixed |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 look | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 look | cc |
| 21 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrayed | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 look | obl |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 says | mark |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 says | nsubj |
| 27 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 look | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
| 29 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 Go | punct |
| 30 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 says | ccomp |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 wife | case |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 wife | nmod:poss |
| 33 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Go | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 son | punct |
| 35 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 son | nmod:poss |
| 36 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 35 king | case |
| 37 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wife | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrayed | punct |
| 39 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrayed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 see | cc |
| 41 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 43 see | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 see | aux |
| 43 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 arrayed | conj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 hand | det |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | obj |
| 46 | without | without | ADP | _ | 49 finger | case |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 finger | det |
| 48 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 finger | amod |
| 49 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 see | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 43 see | punct |
| 51 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 43 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | future · passive | I | the same garments | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | like each | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | look | infinitive | at me | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at i=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | my father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | to thy wife and king's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial_Location | |||||
| 6 | see | future | you | a hand | without a little finger | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
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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