Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 248

The shoemaker took her to his house, and he said that he had but a poor bothy, but that she should get a share of all that was in it.

Who acts: shoemaker, shadow, all · What happens: take, say, have, get, be · To what, where: shadow, house, share · 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 (shoemaker, shadow, all), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shoemaker	det
2	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 house	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 house	nmod:poss
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 had	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 had	nsubj
14	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 bothy	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 bothy	det
17	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bothy	amod
18	bothy	bothy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 had	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 get	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 get	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 get	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 get	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 get	aux
24	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	parataxis
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 share	det
26	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 get	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	32 it	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 it	nsubj
29	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 it	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 it	cop
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 it	case
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 share	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the shoemaker	shadow	shoemaker's house		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to house=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	shoemaker				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	past	shoemaker				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	get	should	shadow	a share			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer share=Stimulus
5	is	past	all			of house	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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