Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 95
My father wants me to marry the son of the king of the Green City, but I don't like him."
Who acts: father, me, I · What happens: want, marry, not like · To what, where: me, son
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 (father, me, I), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wants | nsubj |
| 3 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wants | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 marry | mark |
| 6 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 marry | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 City | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 City | det |
| 14 | Green | Green | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 City | compound |
| 15 | City | City | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 king | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 like | cc |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 like | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 like | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 like | advmod |
| 21 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wants | parataxis |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 like | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | My father | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | marry not said to happen | to-infinitive | me not said here | the son of the king of the Green City | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | ||||
| 3 | not like | present · do-support | I | son | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot he=Theme |
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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