Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 183
Out they went, and on the blue grey filly in the stable they mounted. "
Who acts: cattle · What happens: go, mount
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 (cattle), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mounted | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mounted | cc |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 filly | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 filly | det |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 filly | amod |
| 9 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 filly | amod |
| 10 | filly | filly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mounted | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 stable | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stable | det |
| 13 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filly | nmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mounted | nsubj |
| 15 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cattle | out property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mount | past | cattle | on the blue grey filly in the stable | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on filly=Destination |
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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