Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 17

He went up, put his back against the wall, and threw in a great stretch of it; then he went inside and threw out another great stretch of the wall, and put the five golden cows and the bull without horns on the land of the giant.

Who acts: cowboy · What happens: go up, put, throw, go, throw out · To what, where: back, wall, great stretch, five golden cows

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct
5	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obj
8	against	against	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threw	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 threw	cc
13	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 stretch	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stretch	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 stretch	amod
17	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 threw	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stretch	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 went	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 went	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 threw	conj
24	inside	inside	ADV	_	23 went	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 threw	cc
26	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 went	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 threw	compound:prt
28	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 stretch	det
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stretch	amod
30	stretch	stretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 threw	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 wall	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wall	det
33	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretch	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 put	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 put	cc
36	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 cows	det
38	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 cows	nummod
39	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 cows	amod
40	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 put	obj
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 bull	cc
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 bull	det
43	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cows	conj
44	without	without	ADP	_	45 horns	case
45	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 put	obl
46	on	on	ADP	_	48 land	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 land	det
48	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 horns	nmod
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 giant	case
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 giant	det
51	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 land	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	cowboy						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	put	infinitive	cowboy not said here	cowboy's back		the wall			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against wall=Destination
3	throw	past				a great stretch of wall			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in stretch=Destination
4	go	past	cowboy				then	inside property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	throw out	past	cowboy not said here	another great stretch of the wall					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stretch=Theme
6	put	infinitive	cowboy not said here		the five golden cows and the bull			without horns on the land of the giant	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cow=Goal

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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