Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 45
A great castle, and an orchard about the castle, in which was every kind of fruit and herb.
Who acts: great castle · What happens: be · To what, where: kind
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 (great castle), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 castle | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 castle | amod |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 orchard | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 orchard | cc |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 orchard | det |
| 7 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 castle | appos |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 orchard | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 kind | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 kind | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kind | cop |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 kind | det |
| 16 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 castle | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fruit | case |
| 18 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kind | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 herb | cc |
| 20 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fruit | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a great castle and every kind | every kind | of fruit and herb | 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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