Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 246
Come down, for there is need of you for a short while at my house."
Who acts: you, need · What happens: come down, be, need · To what, where: house, you
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, need), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 1 Come | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 is | case |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | advcl |
| 7 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 while | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 while | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 while | amod |
| 13 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | imperative | you not said here | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | be | present | need of you | my house; there | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at house=Location | |||
| 3 | need | you | nom need «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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