Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 237
"I think, wife, that you have turned crazy.
Who acts: shoemaker, you · What happens: think, turn · To what, where: wife
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 (shoemaker, 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 | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | aux |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 think | conj |
| 11 | crazy | crazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the shoemaker = shoemaker | wife | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | present · perfect | you | crazy property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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