Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 30

Then he took out his knife, cut the five heads off the giant, and when he had them off he cut out the tongues and threw the heads over the wall.

Who acts: cowboy · What happens: take out, cut, have off, cut out, throw · To what, where: knife, five heads, heads, tongues, wall

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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 took	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 knife	nmod:poss
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct
8	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 heads	det
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 heads	nummod
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obj
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 giant	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 giant	det
14	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cut	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cut	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 cut	cc
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 had	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cut	advcl
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	obj
21	off	off	ADP	_	19 had	compound:prt
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cut	nsubj
23	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	parataxis
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 cut	compound:prt
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 tongues	det
26	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cut	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 threw	cc
28	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 cut	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 heads	det
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 threw	obj
31	over	over	ADP	_	33 wall	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wall	det
33	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 threw	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take out	past	cowboy	cowboy's knife		then	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme
2	cut	infinitive		the five heads			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset head=Product
3	have off	past	cowboy	heads = head			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	cut out	past	cowboy	the tongues			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector tongue=Eventuality
5	throw	past	cowboy not said here	the heads	the wall		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme over wall=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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