Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 69
"If thy father had that rod what would he do with it?"
Who acts: father · What happens: have, do · To what, where: rod
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 (father), 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 | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 rod | det |
| 7 | rod | rod | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 do | obj |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | thy father | that rod | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | would | father | with rod | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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