Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 209
"I will leave the axe and the wood knife here till I return," says he.
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, return, say · To what, where: axe, trick · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | aux |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 says | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 axe | det |
| 6 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 leave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 knife | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 knife | det |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 knife | compound |
| 10 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 axe | conj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 leave | advmod |
| 12 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 return | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 return | nsubj |
| 14 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 leave | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 return | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 17 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 says | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | future | I | the axe and the wood knife | here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | |||
| 2 | return in a quote | present | I | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | trick | tree rules |
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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