Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 5

"You, you poor creature, what good would you do?"

Who acts: you · What happens: do · To what, where: poor creature

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 (you), 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	_	6 creature	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 creature	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 creature	nsubj
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 creature	amod
6	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 do	obj
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 do	reparandum
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 do	aux
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 do	nsubj
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 creature	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 creature	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	would	you	poor creature					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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