Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 78
"He would beat the dogs and the cats when they would be coming near the king's bottles and glasses."
Who acts: giant, dogs · What happens: beat, come · To what, where: dogs, bottles
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 (giant, dogs), 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 | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 beat | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beat | aux |
| 4 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dogs | det |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 beat | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cats | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cats | det |
| 9 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dogs | conj |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 coming | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 coming | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 coming | aux |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 beat | advcl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 19 bottles | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bottles | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 coming | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 glasses | cc |
| 21 | glasses | glass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 bottles | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat in a quote | would | giant | the dogs and the cats | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dog=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | would · progressive | dogs = dog | the king's bottles and glasses | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near bottle=Location |
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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