Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 224
"Look in the filly's ear, king's son, or else we are lost."
Who acts: you · What happens: look, lose · To what, where: we
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), 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 Look | punct |
| 2 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 ear | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 filly | det |
| 5 | filly | filly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ear | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 filly | case |
| 7 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Look | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 king | case |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ear | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lost | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 lost | cc |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 17 lost | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 lost | aux:pass |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Look | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | imperative | you not said here | in the filly's ear and king's son | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in ear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose in a quote | present · passive | we | else property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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