Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 232
In the mouth of night she climbed up into a tree of oak that was beside the well, and she lay in the fork of that tree all night.
Who acts: greyhound, oak · What happens: climb up, be, lie · To what, where: mouth, well, fork
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 (greyhound, oak), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mouth | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mouth | det |
| 3 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 night | case |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mouth | nmod |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 7 climbed | advmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 oak | case |
| 13 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 well | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 well | cop |
| 16 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 well | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 well | det |
| 18 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 oak | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 lay | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 lay | cc |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 climbed | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 fork | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fork | det |
| 25 | fork | fork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 tree | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 tree | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fork | nmod |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 night | det |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lay | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | greyhound | the mouth of night | into a tree of oak | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | |||
| 2 | is | past | oak | the well | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | greyhound | the fork of that tree | night | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in fork=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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