Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 30
The king's son got good and right good treatment that night.
Who acts: son · What happens: get · To what, where: good good treatment
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 treatment | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 right | cc |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 9 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 treatment | amod |
| 10 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the king's son | good good treatment | night | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus |
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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