Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 55

We had to stop all night that way, beaten on the faces by the bones of the stork.

Who acts: We · What happens: have, stop, beat · To what, where: way, 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), 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 stop	mark
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	xcomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl:unmarked
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 beaten	punct
10	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 way	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 faces	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 faces	det
13	faces	face	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beaten	obl
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 bones	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bones	det
16	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beaten	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stork	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stork	det
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bones	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	We					tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	We not said here	that way		night		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	beat	participle		that way not said here	the faces		by the bones of the stork	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on face=Location

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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