Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 267
Then the king's son stood up and said: "I thank you for a wise advice and an honest word.
Who acts: son · What happens: stand up, say, thank · To what, where: you · 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stood | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 stood | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 said | cc |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stood | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 thank | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 thank | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 thank | nsubj |
| 13 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 thank | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 advice | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 advice | det |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 advice | amod |
| 18 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 thank | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 word | cc |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 21 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 word | amod |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 advice | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand up | past | the king's son | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thank speech: thank in a quote | present | the king's son = son | you | for a wise advice and a honest word | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent you=Theme for advice=Attribute |
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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