Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 62
The king's son was reminded of his promise to the giant, and till now he had not told his promise to the queen.
Who acts: son · What happens: remind, not tell, promise · To what, where: son, promise, queen · 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), 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 | 6 reminded | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reminded | aux:pass |
| 6 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 promise | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reminded | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 giant | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 promise | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 now | case |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 told | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 told | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 told | advmod |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 reminded | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 promise | nmod:poss |
| 22 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 queen | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 queen | det |
| 25 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 promise | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past · passive | the king's son | of son's promise to the giant | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of promise=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past · perfect | son | son's promise | the queen | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent promise=Topic to queen=Recipient | |||
| 3 | promise | son | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | promise | son | to the queen | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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