Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 206

"My own daughter's tricks are here as before," said the giant; "but if I had my own big axe and wood knife here, I would not be long making a way through this."

Who acts: tricks, I, own daughter · What happens: be, say, have, not be, make, trick · To what, where: giant, own big axe, way, this · 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, I, 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 here	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 here	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 here	cop
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	parataxis
9	as	as	ADP	_	10 before	case
10	before	before	ADV	_	8 here	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 before	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 here	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 had	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 but	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 had	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 axe	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 axe	amod
24	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 axe	amod
25	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 knife	cc
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knife	compound
28	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 axe	conj
29	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 had	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 long	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 long	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 long	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 long	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 long	cop
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 said	parataxis
36	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 long	advcl
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 way	det
38	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 making	obj
39	through	through	ADP	_	40 this	case
40	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 making	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
42	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	My own daughter's tricks			here property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past		the giant			tree rules
3	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I	my own big axe and wood knife	here		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Patient
4	not is in a quote	would	I			long property	tree rules
5	make in a quote	gerund	I not said here	a way	this		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
6	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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