Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 217

"The tricks of my own daughter are the hardest things that ever met me," says the giant; "but if I had my lever and my mighty mattock, I would not be long in making my way through this rock also."

Who acts: tricks, I, mighty mattock · What happens: be, meet, say, have, not be, make · To what, where: hardest things, giant, lever, way, rock, own daughter · 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, mighty mattock), 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	_	11 things	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tricks	det
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 things	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 daughter	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 daughter	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 daughter	amod
7	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tricks	nmod
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 things	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 things	det
10	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 things	amod
11	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 says	ccomp
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 met	obj
13	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 met	advmod
14	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 things	acl:relcl
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 met	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 things	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
18	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 says	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 but	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 had	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 says	parataxis
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lever	nmod:poss
28	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 long	cc
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mattock	nmod:poss
31	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 mattock	amod
32	mattock	mattock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 long	nsubj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 mattock	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 long	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 long	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 long	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 long	cop
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	conj
39	in	in	SCONJ	_	40 making	mark
40	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 long	advcl
41	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 way	nmod:poss
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	obj
43	through	through	ADP	_	45 rock	case
44	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 rock	det
45	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 making	obl
46	also	also	ADV	_	40 making	advmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	the tricks of my own daughter	the hardest things				tree rules
2	meet in a quote	past		the hardest things		ever		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present		the giant				tree rules
4	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	I	my lever				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Patient
5	not is in a quote	would	my mighty mattock				long property	tree rules
6	make in a quote	gerund	my mighty mattock not said here	my way	this rock			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
7	trick in a quote			my own daughter				nom trick «act transitive»: of=patient

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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