Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 259
Three other grains fall, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up.
Who acts: Three other grains, silver pigeon · What happens: fall, spring, eat up · To what, where: that
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 (Three other grains, silver pigeon), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 grains | nummod |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grains | amod |
| 3 | grains | grain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fall | nsubj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprung | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 sprung | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigeon | det |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pigeon | compound |
| 9 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sprung | nsubj |
| 10 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fall | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ate | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ate | cc |
| 13 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sprung | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 ate | obj |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 ate | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | Three other grains | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | spring | participle | the silver pigeon | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | eat up | past | the silver pigeon not said here | that | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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