Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 66
The queen dressed up the cook's son, and she gave him to the giant by the hand.
Who acts: queen · What happens: dress up, give · To what, where: queen, son
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 (queen), 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 queen | det |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nsubj |
| 3 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 queen | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dressed | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cook | det |
| 6 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 cook | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | iobj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 giant | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 gave | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hand | det |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 giant | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | participle | the queen not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | give | past | queen | the cook's son not said here | son | to the giant | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to giant=Recipient |
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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