Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 252
And when the gentles saw the pretty woman that was here they took her to the wedding-room, and they filled for her a glass of wine.
Who acts: gentles, pretty woman · What happens: see, be, take, fill · To what, where: pretty woman, woman, wedding room, glass
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 (gentles, pretty woman), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 saw | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gentles | det |
| 4 | gentles | gentle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woman | det |
| 7 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 took | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 took | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | nsubj |
| 13 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 woman | acl:relcl |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 took | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 room | det |
| 17 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 room | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 wedding | punct |
| 19 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 took | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 filled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 filled | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 filled | nsubj |
| 23 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 her | case |
| 25 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 filled | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 glass | det |
| 27 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 filled | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 wine | case |
| 29 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 glass | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the gentles | the pretty woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer woman=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | here property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the pretty woman | woman | the wedding room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to room=Destination | |||
| 4 | fill | past | gentles = gentle | a glass of wine | for woman | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent glass=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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