Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 87
And the king's son said: "He will be sitting in his kingly chair."
Who acts: son · What happens: say, sit · To what, where: kingly chair · 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 (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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 king | case |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 sitting | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sitting | aux |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 chair | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 chair | nmod:poss |
| 15 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 chair | amod |
| 16 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | sit in a quote | future · progressive | son | son's kingly chair | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=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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