Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 65
"You shall have him," says the king, "when his mother puts him in order for his journey."
Who acts: You, king, mother, son · What happens: have, say, put, journey · To what, where: son, order · 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 (You, king, mother, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 says | ccomp |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | 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 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 king | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 puts | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puts | nsubj |
| 16 | puts | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 says | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 puts | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 order | case |
| 19 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puts | obl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 journey | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 journey | nmod:poss |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 puts | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | shall | You | son | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | present | son's mother | son | order | for son's journey | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 4 | journey in a quote | son | nom journey «act 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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