Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 47
"Bad's the place where you have built the house, king's son," says the giant.
Who acts: Bad, you, giant · What happens: be, build, say · To what, where: place, house · 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 (Bad, you, giant), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 2 | Bad | Bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 place | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 place | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 place | det |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | ccomp |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 built | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 built | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 built | aux |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 house | det |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 son | punct |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 place | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 giant | det |
| 20 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 says | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Bad | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build in a quote | present · perfect | you | the house and king's son | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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