Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 240
She never thought till now that she was so lovable, and she took herself home.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: not think, be, take · To what, where: daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (daughter), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 thought | advmod |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | till | till | ADP | _ | 5 now | case |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 thought | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 lovable | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lovable | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lovable | cop |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 lovable | advmod |
| 10 | lovable | lovable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 now | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | conj |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 took | obj |
| 16 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 took | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | past | daughter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | daughter | lovable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | take | past | daughter | daughter | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=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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