Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 61
But at the end of a day and seven years, who should be seen coming to the castle but the giant.
Who acts: end · What happens: see, come · To what, where: end, castle
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 (end), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 end | cc |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 end | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 end | det |
| 4 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 end | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 years | cc |
| 9 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 years | nummod |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 end | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seen | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 seen | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 seen | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seen | aux:pass |
| 15 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 end | conj |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 seen | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 castle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 castle | det |
| 19 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 giant | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 giant | det |
| 22 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 castle | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 end | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | should · passive | the end of a day and seven years | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | gerund | the end of a day and seven years not said here | the castle but the giant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to castle=Initial_Location |
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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