Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 34
He got good treatment this night, as before--plenty of meat and drink, and warm water to his feet, and a soft bed to his limbs--and on the next day it was the same thing, over three Bens and three Glens, and three Mountain Moors.
Who acts: son, treatment · What happens: get, be · To what, where: good treatment, same thing
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, treatment), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 treatment | amod |
| 4 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 before | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 before | case |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 2 got | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 plenty | punct |
| 11 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 meat | case |
| 13 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 plenty | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meat | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 water | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 water | cc |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 feet | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feet | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 water | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bed | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bed | cc |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 bed | det |
| 26 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bed | amod |
| 27 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 limbs | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 limbs | nmod:poss |
| 30 | limbs | limb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 bed | nmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 thing | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 thing | cc |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 day | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 day | det |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 day | amod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 thing | obl |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 thing | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 thing | cop |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 thing | det |
| 40 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 thing | amod |
| 41 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Bens | punct |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 Bens | case |
| 44 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 Bens | nummod |
| 45 | Bens | ben | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 thing | appos |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 Glens | cc |
| 47 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 48 Glens | nummod |
| 48 | Glens | glen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 Bens | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 Moors | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 Moors | cc |
| 51 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 53 Moors | nummod |
| 52 | Mountain | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 Moors | compound |
| 53 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | son | good treatment | night | plenty of meat and drink obl; warm water to son's feet obl; a soft bed to son's limbs obl; three Mountain Moors obl; before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer treatment=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | is a | past | treatment | the same thing | day | 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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