Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 260

"If you remembered when I harried the magpie's nest, you would not eat that without giving me my share," says the golden pigeon; "I lost my little finger bringing it down, and I want it still."

Who acts: you, golden pigeon, my · What happens: remember, harry, not eat, give, say, lose · To what, where: nest, that, share, golden pigeon, little finger, finger · 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 (you, golden pigeon, my), 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	_	4 remembered	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 remembered	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 remembered	nsubj
4	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 harried	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 harried	nsubj
7	harried	harry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 magpie	det
9	magpie	magpie	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nest	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 magpie	case
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 harried	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eat	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 eat	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 eat	advmod
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 remembered	parataxis
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 eat	obj
18	without	without	SCONJ	_	19 giving	mark
19	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 eat	advcl
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 giving	iobj
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 share	nmod:poss
22	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 giving	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 says	punct
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	25 says	punct
25	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pigeon	det
27	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 pigeon	amod
28	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 says	obj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 lost	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 lost	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 lost	nsubj
32	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	conj
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 finger	nmod:poss
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 finger	amod
35	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lost	obj
36	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 lost	advcl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bringing	obj
38	down	down	ADP	_	36 bringing	compound:prt
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 want	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 want	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 want	nsubj
42	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 remembered	parataxis
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 want	obj
44	still	still	ADV	_	42 want	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct
46	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	remember in a quote	past	you				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	harry in a quote	past	the golden pigeon = pigeon	the magpie's nest			vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient
3	not eat in a quote	would	you	that			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	give in a quote	gerund	you not said here	my share	the golden pigeon = pigeon		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient share=Theme
5	say speech: assert	present	the golden pigeon				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	lose in a quote	past	the golden pigeon = pigeon	my little finger			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Eventuality
7	bring down in a quote	gerund	the golden pigeon = pigeon not said here	finger			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	want in a quote	present	the golden pigeon = pigeon	finger		still	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
9	share in a quote		my				nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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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