Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 211
"If you will do that," says the giant, "I must take them home."
Who acts: you, I · What happens: do, say, take · To what, where: that, giant, axe · 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 (you, 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 do | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 take | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | ccomp |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | home | home | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | must | I | axe | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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