Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 198
"My own daughter's tricks are trying me," said the giant. "
Who acts: tricks, giant, own daughter · What happens: try, say, trick · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tricks, giant, own daughter), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 daughter | amod |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 daughter | case |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trying | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trying | aux |
| 8 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 trying | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 trying | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giant | det |
| 14 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try in a quote | present · progressive | My own daughter's tricks | the giant = giant | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | trick in a quote | My own daughter | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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