Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 21
When the king's son saw this he helped the raven, and with one blow takes the head off the snake.
Who acts: son, one blow · What happens: see, help, take · To what, where: this, raven, head
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 (son, one blow), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 son | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 helped | nsubj |
| 9 | helped | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 raven | det |
| 11 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 helped | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 takes | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 takes | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 blow | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 blow | nummod |
| 16 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | nsubj |
| 17 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 head | det |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 snake | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 snake | det |
| 22 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 takes | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the king's son | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | help | past | son | the raven | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent raven=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | take | present | one blow | the head | off the snake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off snake=Initial_Location |
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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