Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 106

After midday when sweat was blinding him, the giant's youngest daughter came where he was, and she said to him:

Who acts: sweat, youngest daughter, tis, daughter · What happens: blind, come, be, say · To what, where: tis · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweat, youngest daughter, tis, daughter), 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	6 blinding	mark
2	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 After	fixed
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 blinding	advmod
4	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 blinding	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 blinding	aux
6	blinding	blind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 came	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 blinding	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blinding	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giant	det
10	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 daughter	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 giant	case
12	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 daughter	amod
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 was	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	nsubj
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 said	obl
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	blind	past · progressive	sweat	tis		tree rules
2	come	past	the giant's youngest daughter			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be	past	tis			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	daughter		tis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient

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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