Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 262

"Well," said the king's son to the guests at the feast, "when I was a little younger than I am now, I lost the key of a casket that I had.

Who acts: son · What happens: say, be, lose, have · To what, where: guests, key, casket · 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 (son), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Well	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 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 guests	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 guests	det
12	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 said	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 feast	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 feast	det
15	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guests	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 younger	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 younger	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 younger	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 younger	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 younger	cop
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 little	det
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 younger	obl
23	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 said	nsubj
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	27 now	mark
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 now	nsubj
26	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 now	cop
27	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 younger	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 lost	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 lost	nsubj
30	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 key	det
32	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lost	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 casket	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 casket	det
35	casket	casket	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 key	nmod
36	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 had	obj
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 had	nsubj
38	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 casket	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king's son		the guests at the feast		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to guest=Recipient
2	is in a quote	past	the king's son = son			a little obl; young property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the king's son = son			now property	tree rules
4	lose in a quote	past	the king's son = son	the key of a casket			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=Eventuality
5	have in a quote	past	the king's son = son	a casket			vn birth-28.2-1 «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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