Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 221
"If you leave 'em, leave 'em," says the hoodie, "we will steal 'em, steal 'em."
Who acts: you, hoodie, we · What happens: leave, say, steal · To what, where: 'em · 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, hoodie, we), 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 | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 leave | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | nsubj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 leave | advcl |
| 5 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 leave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 leave | punct |
| 7 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 8 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 leave | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 leave | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hoodie | det |
| 13 | hoodie | hoodie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 steal | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 steal | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 steal | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 steal | aux |
| 18 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 19 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 steal | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 steal | punct |
| 21 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 steal | conj |
| 22 | 'em | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 steal | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | 'em = they | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | 'em = they | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the hoodie | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | steal in a quote | future | we | 'em = they | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | steal in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | 'em = they | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location 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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