Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 49
"What's the reward for putting it back in the bundle as it was before?"
Who acts: reward, Bad · What happens: be, put back · To what, where: reward, Bad, 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 (reward, Bad), 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 reward | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 reward | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reward | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 putting | mark |
| 7 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 reward | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 putting | obj |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 putting | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bundle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bundle | det |
| 12 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 putting | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 before | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 before | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 before | cop |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 7 putting | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 reward | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the reward | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put back in a quote | gerund | the reward not said here | Bad | the bundle | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bundle=Destination | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | Bad | before property | 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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