Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 98
Thou wilt get to wife one of the two eldest of my daughters, and with her leave to go home with her the day after the wedding."
Who acts: Thou · What happens: get, go · To what, where: wife
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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 wife | mark |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 wife | flat |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 eldest | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eldest | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 eldest | nummod |
| 10 | eldest | eldest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 daughters | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eldest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 leave | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 leave | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 leave | nmod:poss |
| 18 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 go | mark |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 leave | acl |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 go | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 her | case |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 go | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 day | det |
| 25 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | after | after | ADP | _ | 28 wedding | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wedding | det |
| 28 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 go | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | future | Thou | wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wife=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | Thou not said here | after the wedding; day | with wife; home property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with she=Beneficiary |
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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