Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 177

But bed time came, and the giant said, "It is time for thee to go to rest, son of the king of Tethertown; choose thy bride to take with thee from amidst those."

Who acts: bed time, giant, house, thee · What happens: come, say, be, go, rest, choose · To what, where: time, bride, those · 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 (bed time, giant, house, thee), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 came	cc
2	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 time	compound
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 time	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 time	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 time	cop
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 go	mark
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 go	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 go	mark
18	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 time	acl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 rest	mark
20	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 go	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 son	punct
22	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 time	parataxis
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 son	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Tethertown	case
27	Tethertown	Tethertown	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 king	nmod
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 choose	punct
29	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
30	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 bride	nmod:poss
31	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 choose	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 take	mark
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 choose	xcomp
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 thee	case
35	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 take	obl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 those	case
37	amidst	amidst	ADP	_	38 those	case
38	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	33 take	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	bed time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the giant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	house	time			tree rules
4	go in a quote	to-infinitive	thee				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	rest in a quote	to-infinitive	thee not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	choose in a quote	infinitive	bed time not said here	thy bride			tree rules
7	take in a quote	to-infinitive	bed time not said here		those	with thee	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from that=Initial_Location

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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