Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 265
Which of the keys should I keep?"
Who acts: I · What happens: keep
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 (I), 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 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 keep | obj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 keys | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 keys | det |
| 4 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | obl |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | should | I | of the keys | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
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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