Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 207
He went home for the big axe and the wood knife, and sure he was not long on his journey, and he was the boy behind the big axe.
Who acts: trick · What happens: go, not be, be, journey · To what, where: journey, boy, big axe
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 (trick), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 went | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 axe | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 axe | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 axe | amod |
| 7 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knife | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 10 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knife | compound |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 axe | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 long | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 long | cop |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 long | advmod |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 journey | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 journey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 long | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 boy | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 boy | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 boy | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 boy | cop |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 boy | det |
| 27 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sure | conj |
| 28 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 31 axe | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 axe | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 axe | amod |
| 31 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 boy | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | trick | for the big axe and the wood knife; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for axe=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | trick | trick's journey | long property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | trick | the boy | the big axe | tree rules | |||
| 4 | journey | trick | nom journey «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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