Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 25
"Now," said the raven, "see you that house yonder?
Who acts: raven · What happens: say, see · To what, where: you · 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 (raven), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 raven | det |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 see | punct |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 house | det |
| 13 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 14 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 see | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the raven | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | the raven not said here | you | yonder property | 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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