Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 185
She jumped in, and cut an apple into nine shares, and she put two shares at the head of the bed, and two shares at the foot of the bed, and two shares at the door of the kitchen, and two shares at the big door, and one outside the house.
Who acts: filly · What happens: jump in, cut, put · To what, where: apple, nine shares, two shares, head
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 (filly), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 jumped | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 cut | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cut | cc |
| 6 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 jumped | advcl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 apple | det |
| 8 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cut | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 shares | case |
| 10 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 shares | nummod |
| 11 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 cut | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 put | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 put | cc |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 put | nsubj |
| 15 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 jumped | conj |
| 16 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 shares | nummod |
| 17 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 put | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 head | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 head | det |
| 20 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 put | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bed | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bed | det |
| 23 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 head | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shares | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shares | cc |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 shares | nummod |
| 27 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jumped | parataxis |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 foot | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 foot | det |
| 30 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shares | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bed | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bed | det |
| 33 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 foot | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 shares | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 shares | cc |
| 36 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 shares | nummod |
| 37 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 shares | conj |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 door | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 door | det |
| 40 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 shares | nmod |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 kitchen | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 kitchen | det |
| 43 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 door | nmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 shares | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 shares | cc |
| 46 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 shares | nummod |
| 47 | shares | share | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 shares | conj |
| 48 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 door | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 door | det |
| 50 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 door | amod |
| 51 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 shares | nmod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 one | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 one | cc |
| 54 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 jumped | conj |
| 55 | outside | outside | ADP | _ | 57 house | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 house | det |
| 57 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 one | nmod |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump in | past | filly | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cut | infinitive | filly not said here | a apple | nine shares | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent apple=Material into share=Product | |||
| 3 | put | past | filly | two shares | the head of the bed | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent share=Theme at head=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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