Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 28

He sprang on the giant, and with the first squeeze and thrust he put him to his knees in the hard ground, with the second thrust to his waist, and with the third to his shoulders.

Who acts: heart · What happens: spring, put · To what, where: cowboy, hard ground

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 (heart), 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 sprang	nsubj
2	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 giant	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 giant	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sprang	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 put	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 put	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 squeeze	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 squeeze	det
10	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 squeeze	amod
11	squeeze	squeeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thrust	cc
13	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 squeeze	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	nsubj
15	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sprang	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 put	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 knees	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 knees	nmod:poss
19	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 put	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ground	amod
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 thrust	punct
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 thrust	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 thrust	det
27	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 thrust	amod
28	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 put	parataxis
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 waist	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 waist	nmod:poss
31	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 thrust	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 third	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 third	cc
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 third	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 third	det
36	third	third	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprang	obl
37	to	to	ADP	_	39 shoulders	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 shoulders	nmod:poss
39	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 third	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spring	past	heart					on the giant; with the third to heart's shoulders	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on giant=Trajectory
2	put	past	heart	cowboy		the hard ground		with the first squeeze and thrust; to heart's knees	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in ground=Destination

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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