Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 8

No other giant of the day could stand before him; and such was his strength, that, when well vexed, he could give a stamp that shook the country about him.

Who acts: other giant, that, giant, stamp · What happens: stand, be, vex, give, shake · To what, where: such strength, stamp, country

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other giant, that, giant, stamp), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 giant	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 giant	nmod
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 stand	aux
8	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stand	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 strength	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strength	cc
13	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 strength	amod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 strength	cop
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 strength	nmod:poss
16	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stand	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vexed	punct
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 vexed	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 vexed	punct
20	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	22 vexed	advmod
21	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 vexed	advmod
22	vexed	vex	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 strength	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 give	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 give	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 give	aux
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 stand	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 stamp	det
28	stamp	stamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 shook	nsubj
30	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 stamp	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 country	det
32	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shook	obj
33	about	about	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shook	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	could	no other giant of the day		before Cucullin		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	is a	past		Cucullin's such strength			tree rules
3	vex	participle	that			well property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	give	could	giant	a stamp			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stamp=Theme
5	shake	past	a stamp	the country		about Cucullin	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme about he=Trajectory

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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