Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 74
Said the queen to the king, "We'll try it yet; the butler's son is of the same age as our son."
Who acts: queen, We, son · What happens: say, try, be · To what, where: king, stone · 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 (queen, We, 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 | Said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 queen | det |
| 3 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | nsubj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 king | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 try | punct |
| 9 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 try | nsubj |
| 10 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 try | aux |
| 11 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 try | obj |
| 13 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 try | advmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 age | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 butler | det |
| 16 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 butler | case |
| 18 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 age | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 age | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 age | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 age | det |
| 22 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 age | amod |
| 23 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | ccomp |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 25 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 age | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 age | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | try in a quote | future | We | stone | yet | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the butler's son | of the same age | as our son | tree rules |
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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