Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 228
On the next day the young companions were come in sight of his father's house. "
What happens: come, sight · To what, where: young companions, sight, house
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 companions | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 companions | amod |
| 7 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux:pass |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 father | case |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sight | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · passive | the young companions | sight of son's father's house | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | sight | son's father's house | nom sight «cognition 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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