Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 250
The shoemaker was going to the castle with the shoes of the young people, and the girl said to the shoemaker, "I would like to get a sight of the king's son before he marries."
Who acts: shoemaker, girl · What happens: go, say, like, get, marry, sight · To what, where: castle, shoemaker, sight, son · 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, girl), 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 | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 castle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 castle | det |
| 7 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 shoes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shoes | det |
| 10 | shoes | shoe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 castle | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 people | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 people | amod |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shoes | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 girl | det |
| 18 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 shoemaker | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shoemaker | det |
| 22 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 said | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 like | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 like | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 like | aux |
| 27 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 get | mark |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 like | xcomp |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sight | det |
| 31 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 son | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 king | det |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 son | nmod:poss |
| 35 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 34 king | case |
| 36 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sight | nmod |
| 37 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 39 marries | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 marries | nsubj |
| 39 | marries | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 get | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 41 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | the shoemaker | the castle with the shoes of the young people | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the girl | the shoemaker | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shoemaker=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | would | the girl = girl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the girl = girl not said here | a sight of the king's son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | marry in a quote | present | shoemaker | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sight in a quote | the king's son | nom sight «cognition 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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