Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 64
"Turn out your son," says the giant; "mind your promise."
Who acts: your · What happens: turn out, say, mind, promise · To what, where: son, giant, promise · 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 (your), 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 | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 2 | Turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 Turn | compound:prt |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Turn | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Turn | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giant | det |
| 10 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 13 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 promise | nmod:poss |
| 15 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mind | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn out in a quote | infinitive | your son | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mind in a quote | infinitive | your promise | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme | |||||
| 4 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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