Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 48

"Yes, but it is not here I would wish it to be, though it happens to be here by mishap," says the king's son.

Who acts: Bad, son, it · What happens: not be, wish, happen, be, say · To what, where: Bad · 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, son, it), 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	_	11 wish	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 wish	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 here	cc
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 here	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 here	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 here	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 wish	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 wish	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 wish	aux
11	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 says	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wish	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 be	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 wish	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happens	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 happens	mark
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happens	nsubj
18	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 wish	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	21 here	mark
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 here	cop
21	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 happens	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 mishap	case
23	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 here	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 wish	punct
26	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 king	det
28	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 king	case
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 says	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	Bad		here property	tree rules
2	wish in a quote	would	the king's son = son	Bad		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme
3	happen in a quote	present	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is in a quote	to-infinitive			by mishap; here property	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	present	the king's son			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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