Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 22

When the raven had taken breath, and saw that the snake was dead, he said, "For thy kindness to me this day, I will give thee a sight.

Who acts: snake · What happens: take, see, be, say, give · To what, where: raven, sight, thee · 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 (snake), 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	SCONJ	_	5 taken	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 raven	det
3	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	aux
5	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 give	advcl
6	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taken	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 saw	cc
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 taken	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 dead	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snake	det
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dead	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 dead	cop
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 saw	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 kindness	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 kindness	punct
20	For	for	ADP	_	22 kindness	case
21	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	22 kindness	nmod:poss
22	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 kindness	nmod
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 day	det
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taken	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
31	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 give	iobj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 sight	det
33	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect · passive		the raven				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme breath=Destination
2	see	past						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	the snake				dead property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	snake			day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	give in a quote	future	snake	a sight	thee			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient sight=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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