Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 8
The wren threshed (what did he thresh with?
Who acts: wren · What happens: thresh
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 (wren), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wren | det |
| 2 | wren | wren | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threshed | nsubj |
| 3 | threshed | thresh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 thresh | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 thresh | obj |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 thresh | aux |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thresh | nsubj |
| 8 | thresh | thresh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 threshed | conj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thresh | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 threshed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thresh | past | the wren | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | thresh | past · do-support | wren | 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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