Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 242
"You home-spun shoe carle, do you think I am fit to be your thrall?"
Who acts: you, I · What happens: spin, think, be · To what, where: You, thrall · 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 (you, I), 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 | _ | 5 spun | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 spun | advmod |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 home | punct |
| 5 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carle | compound |
| 7 | carle | carle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spun | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 think | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spun | conj |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fit | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fit | cop |
| 14 | fit | fit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 think | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 thrall | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 thrall | cop |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 thrall | nmod:poss |
| 18 | thrall | thrall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fit | xcomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spun | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | participle · passive | You | home property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme carle=Result | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | I | fit property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | your thrall | tree rules |
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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