Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 55
The king's son took to the road, and at the end of a few days he reached the place he was fondest of.
Who acts: son · What happens: take, reach, be · To what, where: place, end
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 road | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 road | det |
| 8 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 days | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | amod |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 end | nmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 place | det |
| 21 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fondest | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 fondest | cop |
| 24 | fondest | fond | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 reached | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 fondest | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the king's son | to the road result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to road=Result | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | son | the place | at the end of a few days | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent place=Theme at end=Asset | |||
| 3 | is | past | son | fond 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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