Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 3
"I am seeking a servant," said the farmer to the wren.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: seek, say · To what, where: servant · 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 (farmer), 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 seeking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seeking | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 seeking | aux |
| 4 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 servant | det |
| 6 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seeking | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeking | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 farmer | det |
| 11 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wren | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wren | det |
| 14 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 farmer | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek in a quote | present · progressive | the farmer to the wren = farmer | a servant | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the farmer to the wren | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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