Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 37
Said the lad to him, "You will never see the raven again, for I am that raven.
Who acts: lad, son · What happens: say, not see, be · To what, where: son, raven · 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 (lad, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lad | det |
| 3 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Said | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 see | punct |
| 8 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 see | aux |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 see | advmod |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 raven | det |
| 13 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obj |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 see | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 raven | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 raven | case |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 raven | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 raven | cop |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 raven | det |
| 20 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 see | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the lad | son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not see in a quote | future | son | the raven | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the lad = lad | for that raven | 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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