Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 245
"Your seat is wavering, but your face is fair," said the shoemaker. "
Who acts: seat, face, shoemaker · What happens: waver, be, say · 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 (seat, face, shoemaker), 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 wavering | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 seat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wavering | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wavering | aux |
| 5 | wavering | waver | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fair | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 fair | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 face | nmod:poss |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fair | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fair | cop |
| 11 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wavering | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wavering | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wavering | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shoemaker | det |
| 16 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waver in a quote | present · progressive | Your seat | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your face | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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