Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 97
"Now, son of the king of Tethertown, thou hast not lost by living with me so long.
Who acts: thou · What happens: not lose, live · To what, where: 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 (thou), 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 | _ | 4 son | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 son | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 son | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Tethertown | case |
| 9 | Tethertown | Tethertown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lost | punct |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 lost | nsubj |
| 12 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lost | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 lost | advmod |
| 14 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 son | acl:relcl |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 living | mark |
| 16 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 lost | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 living | obl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 long | advmod |
| 20 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 living | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not lose in a quote | present · perfect | thou | son of the king of Tethertown not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | gerund | thou not said here | with giant; long property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=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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