Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 23
Come up now on the root of my two wings."
Who acts: you · What happens: come up · To what, where: root
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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Come | advmod |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 root | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 root | det |
| 6 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wings | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 wings | nummod |
| 10 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 root | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | imperative | you not said here | the root of my two wings | now | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on root=Location |
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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