Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 58
"Advance, king's son," said the pretty maid; "everything is in order for you, if you will marry me this very day."
Who acts: son, everything, you · What happens: say, be, marry · To what, where: pretty maid, order, son · 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 (son, everything, 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 son | punct |
| 2 | Advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 king | compound |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Advance | punct |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 king | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 maid | amod |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 order | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 order | punct |
| 15 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 18 order | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 order | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 order | case |
| 18 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 order | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 marry | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 marry | aux |
| 25 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 marry | obj |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 day | det |
| 28 | very | very | ADV | _ | 29 day | advmod |
| 29 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 marry | obl:unmarked |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 marry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Advance king's son | the pretty maid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | everything | order | for you | tree rules | |||
| 3 | marry a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Advance king's son = son | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |
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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