Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 54

We had to fast that night; and when the man and his twelve daughters ate the flesh of the stork, they hurled the bare bones in the faces of my sons and myself.

Who acts: We, man, pikes · What happens: have, fast, eat, hurl · To what, where: flesh, bare bones, faces

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 (We, man, pikes), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fast	mark
4	fast	fast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fast	obl:unmarked
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 hurled	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hurled	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 ate	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ate	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 daughters	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 daughters	nmod:poss
14	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 daughters	nummod
15	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 man	conj
16	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hurled	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flesh	det
18	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ate	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 stork	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stork	det
21	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flesh	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 ate	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hurled	nsubj
24	hurled	hurl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bones	det
26	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bones	amod
27	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hurled	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 faces	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 faces	det
30	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hurled	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 sons	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 sons	nmod:poss
33	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 faces	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 myself	cc
35	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 sons	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	have	past	We				tree rules
2	fast	to-infinitive	We not said here			night	tree rules
3	eat	past	the man and man's twelve daughters	the flesh of the stork			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient
4	hurl	past	pikes = pike	the bare bones	the faces of my sons		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bone=Theme in face=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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