Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 50
"What's the reward you would ask?" says the king's son.
Who acts: reward, son · What happens: be, say · 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 (reward, son), 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 | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ask | obj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 reward | det |
| 5 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 ask | aux |
| 8 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 says | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 ask | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 son | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 king | case |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | would · present | the reward | ask property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | 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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