Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 179
"Thou hast aimed well this time too; but there is no knowing but we may meet thee another way," said the giant.
Who acts: we · What happens: aim, be, know, meet, say · To what, where: Thou, thee, 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 (we), 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 | _ | 4 aimed | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 aimed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aimed | aux:pass |
| 4 | aimed | aim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 said | ccomp |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 aimed | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aimed | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 aimed | advmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 is | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 is | expl |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 knowing | det |
| 14 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 is | advcl |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 meet | cc |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 meet | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 meet | aux |
| 18 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 knowing | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 meet | obj |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 meet | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 is | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 giant | det |
| 26 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 said | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aim in a quote | present · passive | Thou | time | well property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | meet in a quote | may | we | thee | another way obl:unmarked | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | 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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