Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 26

They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting the upper hand; and then the cowboy thought that if the giant should kill him, his father and mother would never find him or set eyes on him again, and he would never get the daughter of the king of Erin.

Who acts: pieces, giant, cowboy, father · What happens: fight, get, think, kill, not find, not get · To what, where: upper hand, cowboy, daughter

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 (pieces, giant, cowboy, father), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	4 late	mark
4	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fought	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 afternoon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 afternoon	det
7	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 late	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 getting	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 getting	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 giant	det
11	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 getting	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 getting	aux
13	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fought	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hand	det
15	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hand	amod
16	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 getting	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 thought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 thought	cc
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 thought	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cowboy	det
21	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 thought	nsubj
22	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 kill	mark
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 kill	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 giant	det
26	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 kill	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 kill	aux
28	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 thought	ccomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 kill	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 find	punct
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 find	nsubj
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 mother	cc
34	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 father	conj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 find	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	37 find	advmod
37	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kill	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 find	obj
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 eyes	cc
40	set	set	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 eyes	amod
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 him	conj
42	on	on	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 eyes	nmod
44	again	again	ADV	_	37 find	advmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 get	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 get	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 get	nsubj
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 get	aux
49	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	50 get	advmod
50	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fought	conj
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 daughter	det
52	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 get	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 king	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 king	det
55	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 daughter	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 Erin	case
57	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 king	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	pieces = piece			late property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past · progressive	the giant	the upper hand			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
3	think speech: other	past	the cowboy		then		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	kill a condition, not said to happen	should	the giant	cowboy			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	not find	would	cowboy's father and mother	cowboy	again		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
6	not get	would	cowboy	the daughter of the king of Erin			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus

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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