Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 249

One day, the shoemaker had shoes ready, for on that very day the king's son was to be married.

Who acts: shoemaker · What happens: have, marry · To what, where: shoes, son

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), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoemaker	det
5	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 had	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	14 day	case
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 day	advmod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 son	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 married	nsubj:pass
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 married	aux:pass
20	to	to	PART	_	22 married	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 married	aux:pass
22	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 day	acl:relcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the shoemaker	shoes			day	ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient
2	marry	past · passive	the shoemaker not said here	the king's son					vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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