Celtic Fairy Tales, IV. Horned Women., sentence 10
The familiar "lady-bird, lady-bird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children at home," will occur to English minds.
Who acts: familiar lady bird, house · What happens: fly away, be, occur · To what, where: home, fire
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, IV. Horned Women.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (familiar lady bird, house), 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 | 6 bird | det |
| 2 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bird | amod |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bird | punct |
| 8 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 lady | punct |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fire | punct |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fire | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 fire | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 fire | case |
| 20 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 children | cc |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 children | nmod:poss |
| 23 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 fire | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 occur | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 occur | punct |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 occur | aux |
| 29 | occur | occur | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 fly | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 minds | case |
| 31 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 minds | amod |
| 32 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 occur | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away in a quote | infinitive | the familiar lady bird and lady bird | home | away, home property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at home=Location | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | your house | fire and your children | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | occur | future | the familiar lady bird and lady bird not said here | to English minds | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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