Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 193

The apple that was at the big door answered.

Who acts: apple · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: big door

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 (apple), 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 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 answered	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 door	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 door	cop
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 door	det
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 door	amod
8	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 apple	acl:relcl
9	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the apple			the big door			tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	the apple						vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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