Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 99
"If you will give me this pretty little one," says the king's son, "I will take you at your word."
Who acts: you, son, your · What happens: give, say, take, word · To what, where: little one, son, you, word · 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 (you, son, your), 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 | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 give | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | aux |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 8 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 9 little | advmod |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 king | case |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 says | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 take | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | aux |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 take | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 word | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 word | nmod:poss |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | this little one | the king's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient one=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the king's son | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take in a quote | future | the king's son = son | you | your word | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Theme at word=Asset | |||
| 4 | word in a quote | your | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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