Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 182
We must fly quick, quick, or for certain my father will kill you."
Who acts: We, father · What happens: fly, kill · To what, where: you
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, father), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 quick | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 kill | cc |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 certain | case |
| 10 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 kill | obl |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fly | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | must | We | quick property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | kill | future | my father | you | for certain | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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