Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 172
"Yes, yes!" says the giant, "be making ready for your marriage."
Who acts: your · What happens: say, make, marry · To what, where: giant · 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 (your), 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 | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 says | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 2 Yes | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 giant | det |
| 9 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 says | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 making | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 making | aux |
| 13 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 says | advcl |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 making | xcomp |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 marriage | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ready | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 2 | make in a quote | infinitive · progressive | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 3 | marry in a quote | your | nom marriage «state transitive»: poss=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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