Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 222
"Do that if you will; there is no time to go back."
Who acts: you, time · What happens: do, be, go back · To what, where: that
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, time), 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Do | obj |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 will | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 will | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 is | punct |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 is | expl |
| 9 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | advcl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 time | det |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 is | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 go | mark |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 time | acl |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 go | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | imperative | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | no time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go back in a quote | to-infinitive | no time not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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