Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 16

The new cowboy drove the cattle to pasture, and when near the land of the giant, he saw it was covered with woods and surrounded by a high wall.

Who acts: new cowboy, cowboy · What happens: drive, pasture, see, cover, surround · To what, where: cattle, land · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (new cowboy, cowboy), 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	3 cowboy	det
2	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cowboy	amod
3	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cattle	det
6	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pasture	mark
8	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 cattle	acl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	14 land	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 giant	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 giant	det
17	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 land	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 covered	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 covered	aux:pass
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 saw	ccomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 woods	case
25	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 covered	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 surrounded	cc
27	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 covered	conj
28	by	by	ADP	_	31 wall	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 wall	det
30	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 wall	amod
31	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 surrounded	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive	past	the new cowboy	the cattle			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme
2	pasture	to-infinitive	the new cowboy not said here	the cattle not said here			vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	cowboy		the land of the giant		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	cover	past · passive		land		with woods	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with wood=Theme
5	surround	participle				by a high wall	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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