Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 72

So he took the wooden one; and going to the pot, brought out on the pike all the stork except a small bite, and he and the Gruagach fell to eating, and they were eating the flesh of the stork all night.

Who acts: cowboy, pikes · What happens: take, go, bring out, fall, eat · To what, where: wooden one, stork, pot, flesh

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 going	cc
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 pot	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pot	det
12	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 brought	punct
14	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 pot	acl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 brought	compound:prt
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 pike	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 pike	det
18	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 brought	obl
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 stork	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stork	det
21	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 going	xcomp
22	except	except	ADP	_	25 bite	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 bite	det
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 bite	amod
25	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stork	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 fell	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fell	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 Gruagach	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Gruagach	det
31	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 he	conj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 eating	case
34	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 fell	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 eating	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 eating	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 eating	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 eating	aux
39	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 took	advcl
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 flesh	det
41	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eating	obj
42	of	of	ADP	_	44 stork	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 stork	det
44	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 flesh	nmod
45	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	46 night	det
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eating	obl:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	cowboy	the wooden one				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
2	go	gerund	cowboy not said here	all stork except a small bite	the pot			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pot=Initial_Location
3	bring out	participle		the pot not said here			on the pike	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	cowboy					vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	eat	infinitive	cowboy not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	eat	past · progressive	pikes = pike	the flesh of the stork		night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient

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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