Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 33
They saw a bothy far off, but, though far off, they were soon there.
Who acts: raven · What happens: see, be · To what, where: bothy
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 (raven), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bothy | det |
| 4 | bothy | bothy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 off | advmod |
| 6 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 off | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 off | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 off | punct |
| 10 | though | though | ADV | _ | 12 off | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 off | advmod |
| 12 | off | off | ADV | _ | 2 saw | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 there | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 there | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 there | cop |
| 16 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 there | advmod |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 off | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | raven | a bothy | off property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bothy=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | raven | soon, there property | tree rules |
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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