Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 70

"If my father had that rod he would beat the dogs and the cats, so that they shouldn't be going near the king's meat," said the little laddie.

Who acts: father, dogs, little laddie · What happens: have, beat, not go, say · To what, where: rod, dogs, meat · 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 (father, dogs, little laddie), 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	_	10 beat	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 had	mark
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	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	10 beat	advcl
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 rod	det
7	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beat	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 beat	aux
10	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dogs	det
12	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beat	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cats	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cats	det
15	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dogs	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	_	31 said	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 going	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 going	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 going	aux
21	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 going	advmod
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 going	aux
23	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 said	advcl
24	near	near	ADP	_	28 meat	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 meat	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 going	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 going	punct
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beat	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 laddie	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 laddie	amod
34	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 beat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	my father	that rod		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=Patient
2	beat in a quote	would	father	the dogs and the cats		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme
3	not go in a quote	should · progressive	dogs = dog		the king's meat	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near meat=Location
4	say speech: assert	past	the little laddie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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