Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 19
The battle was over before he arrived all but one fight, between a great black raven and a snake.
Who acts: battle · What happens: be, arrive · To what, where: one fight
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 (battle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 battle | det |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 over | cop |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 battle | acl |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 fight | advmod |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fight | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fight | nummod |
| 11 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 raven | punct |
| 13 | between | between | ADP | _ | 17 raven | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 raven | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 raven | amod |
| 16 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 raven | amod |
| 17 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 snake | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 snake | det |
| 20 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 raven | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the battle not said here | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | the battle | one fight | between a great black raven and a snake | 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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