Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 174
Giants and gentlemen, and the son of the king of the Green City was in the midst of them.
Who acts: son · What happens: be · To what, where: midst
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), 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 | Giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gentlemen | cc |
| 3 | gentlemen | gentleman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Giants | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 midst | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 midst | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 son | det |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 midst | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 City | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 City | det |
| 13 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 City | compound |
| 14 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 king | nmod |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 midst | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 midst | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 midst | det |
| 18 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Giants | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 midst | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Giants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the son of the king of the Green City | the midst | of gentlemen = gentleman | tree rules |
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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