Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 44
In a twinkling he sees the very grandest place he ever saw.
Who acts: lad · What happens: see · To what, where: grandest place, twinkling
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), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 twinkling | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 twinkling | det |
| 3 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sees | nsubj |
| 5 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 grandest | advmod |
| 8 | grandest | grand | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 place | amod |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sees | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 saw | advmod |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | lad | the grandest place | a twinkling | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | see | past | lad | the grandest place not said here | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=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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