Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 20
The cowboy looked around and saw a five-headed giant pushing through the trees; and soon he was before him.
Who acts: cowboy, headed giant · What happens: look around, see, push, be · To what, where: headed giant, trees
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, headed giant), 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 | 2 cowboy | det |
| 2 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | around | around | ADV | _ | 3 looked | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 saw | cc |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 8 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 headed | nummod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 five | punct |
| 10 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 giant | amod |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 12 | pushing | push | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 giant | acl |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 trees | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trees | det |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pushing | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 him | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 him | cc |
| 18 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 him | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 him | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 him | cop |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look around | past | the cowboy | around property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the cowboy not said here | a headed giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | push | gerund | a headed giant not said here | the trees | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through tree=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | is | past | cowboy | before giant | soon property | tree rules |
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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