Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 38
I was put under spells by a bad druid; it was meeting you that loosed me, and for that you shall get this bundle.
Who acts: bad druid, druid, you · What happens: put, meet, loose, get · To what, where: I, spells, me, bundle
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 (bad druid, druid, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | aux:pass |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 spells | case |
| 5 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 druid | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 druid | det |
| 8 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 druid | amod |
| 9 | druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 meeting | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 meeting | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 meeting | aux |
| 13 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 put | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 loosed | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 loosed | nsubj |
| 16 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 meeting | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 loosed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 get | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 get | cc |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 that | case |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 get | obl |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 get | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 get | aux |
| 24 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 put | conj |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 bundle | det |
| 26 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 get | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | a bad druid | I | spells | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme under spell=Destination | |||
| 2 | meet | past · progressive | druid | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | loose | past | you | me | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 4 | get | shall | you | this bundle | for that | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme for that=Source |
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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