Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 51

"That you will give me the first son you have when he is seven years of age," says the giant.

Who acts: That, you, son, giant · What happens: give, have, be, say · To what, where: first son, seven years · 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 (That, you, son, 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 give	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 give	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 give	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 son	det
8	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 son	amod
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	iobj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 have	nsubj
11	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 give	parataxis
12	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 says	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 years	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 years	cop
15	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 years	nummod
16	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 when	parataxis
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 age	case
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 years	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 years	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 says	punct
21	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 have	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 giant	det
23	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 says	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	give in a quote	future	That		the first son		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme
2	have in a quote	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is a in a quote	present	son	seven years		of age	tree rules
4	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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