Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 113

When he awoke, the giant's daughter was not to be seen, but the byre was so well cleaned that a golden apple would run from end to end of it and raise no stain.

Who acts: death, byre, golden apple · What happens: awake, not see, be, run, raise · To what, where: daughter, end, stain

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 (death, byre, golden apple), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 awoke	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 awoke	nsubj
3	awoke	awake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daughter	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seen	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 seen	aux:pass
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 seen	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 seen	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 seen	aux:pass
13	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 awoke	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cleaned	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 cleaned	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 byre	det
17	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cleaned	nsubj:outer
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cleaned	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 cleaned	advmod
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 cleaned	advmod
21	cleaned	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 awoke	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 run	mark
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 apple	det
24	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 apple	amod
25	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 run	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 run	aux
27	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 cleaned	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 end	case
29	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 run	obl
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 end	case
31	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 run	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 it	case
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 end	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 raise	cc
35	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 run	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 stain	det
37	stain	stain	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 raise	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 awoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awake	past	death				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	past · passive		the giant's daughter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	the byre			clean, well property	tree rules
4	run	would	a golden apple		from end; to end of byre		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to end=Result
5	raise	infinitive	a golden apple not said here	no stain			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stain=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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