Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 94

The giant's daughter was at his side in a twinkling, and she said, "To-morrow you will get the choice of my two sisters to marry; but say that you will not take either, but me.

Who acts: daughter, mother, you · What happens: be, say, get, marry, not take · To what, where: side, choice, mother · 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 (daughter, mother, you), 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 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 giant	case
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 side	cop
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 side	nmod:poss
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 twinkling	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 twinkling	det
11	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 side	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 get	punct
18	To	to	ADP	_	20 morrow	case
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 To	punct
20	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 get	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 get	aux
23	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 choice	det
25	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 get	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 sisters	case
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sisters	nmod:poss
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 sisters	nummod
29	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 choice	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 marry	mark
31	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 get	advcl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 say	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 say	cc
34	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 said	parataxis
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 take	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 take	nsubj
37	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 take	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 take	advmod
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 say	ccomp
40	either	either	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 take	advmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 me	punct
42	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 me	cc
43	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 take	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 side	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant's daughter		giant's side	in a twinkling	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get in a quote	future	you	the choice of my two sisters		to morrow	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer choice=Stimulus
4	marry in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	say speech: assert in a quote	present					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	not take in a quote	future	you	mother		either property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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