Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 238
Go you, daughter, quickly, and fetch a drink for your father."
Who acts: you · What happens: go, fetch · To what, where: you, drink
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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 daughter | punct |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 quickly | punct |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Go | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fetch | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fetch | cc |
| 9 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 drink | det |
| 11 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fetch | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | you | daughter obl; quickly property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | |||
| 2 | fetch | infinitive | a drink | for your father | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drink=Theme for father=Beneficiary |
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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