Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 71

"Thou'rt the cook's son," said the giant.

Who acts: Thou'rt · What happens: say · To what, where: giant · 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 (Thou'rt), 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 Thou'rt	punct
2	Thou'rt	Thou'rt	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cook	det
4	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 son	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cook	case
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Thou'rt	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Thou'rt	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Thou'rt	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 said	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Thou'rt	the giant					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic

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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