Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 54

They were but a short time grazing in the park when a great wild giant came full of rage and madness. "

Who acts: cattle, great wild giant · What happens: graze, come · To what, where: park

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, great wild giant), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grazing	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grazing	aux
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 grazing	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grazing	obl:unmarked
7	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 park	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 park	det
10	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grazing	obl
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 came	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 giant	det
13	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 giant	amod
14	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 giant	amod
15	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grazing	advcl
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 came	xcomp
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 rage	case
19	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 full	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 madness	cc
21	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 rage	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 grazing	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 grazing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	graze	past · progressive	cattle			the park	time		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	past	a great wild giant					full property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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