Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 82
"OUT HERE WITH THY SON," says the giant, "or in a twinkling the stone that is highest in the dwelling will be the lowest."
Who acts: that · What happens: say, twinkle, be · To what, where: giant, twinkling 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 (that), 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 HERE | punct |
| 2 | OUT | out | ADV | _ | 3 HERE | advmod |
| 3 | HERE | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 says | ccomp |
| 4 | WITH | with | ADP | _ | 6 SON | case |
| 5 | THY | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 SON | nmod:poss |
| 6 | SON | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 HERE | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 SON | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 HERE | punct |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 says | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giant | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 giant | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 highest | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 stone | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 17 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 stone | amod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 stone | det |
| 19 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 highest | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 highest | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 highest | cop |
| 22 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 giant | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 dwelling | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dwelling | det |
| 25 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 highest | obl |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lowest | aux |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lowest | cop |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lowest | det |
| 29 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 highest | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 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 | twinkle in a quote | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | that | a twinkling stone | in the dwelling; high property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | future | that not said here | low property | 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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