Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 79
"Thou art the son of the butler," says the giant and dashed his brains out too.
What happens: say, dash out · To what, where: giant, brains · 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: 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 | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 art | nsubj |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | ccomp |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 son | det |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 art | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 butler | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 butler | det |
| 8 | butler | butler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 art | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 giant | det |
| 13 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 says | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dashed | cc |
| 15 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 says | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brains | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brains | brain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dashed | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 dashed | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 15 dashed | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic | |||||
| 2 | dash out | past | giant's brains | out property | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Patient |
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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