Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 201
"Put your hand, quick," said she, "in the ear of the grey filly, and whatever you find in it, throw it behind us."
Who acts: breath, you · What happens: put, say, find, throw · To what, where: hand, ear · 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 (breath, you), 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 | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 2 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Put | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quick | punct |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Put | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Put | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ear | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ear | det |
| 15 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 filly | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 filly | det |
| 18 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 filly | amod |
| 19 | filly | filly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ear | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whatever | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 whatever | cc |
| 22 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 said | parataxis |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 throw | punct |
| 28 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 find | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 throw | obj |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 throw | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 find | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 whatever | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put in a quote | infinitive | your hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | breath | the ear of the grey filly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | present | you | ear | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | throw in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | ear | behind us | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind we=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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