Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 129

He thought she would aid him this time, too, and he sat down near her, and he was not long there till he fell asleep.

Who acts: giant, daughter · What happens: think, aid, sit down, be, fall · To what, where: giant · 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 (giant, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 aid	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 aid	aux
5	aid	aid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 aid	obj
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 aid	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 too	punct
10	too	too	ADV	_	5 aid	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	parataxis
15	down	down	ADP	_	14 sat	compound:prt
16	near	near	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 there	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 there	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 there	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 there	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 long	advmod
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 there	advmod
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sat	conj
25	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 there	advcl
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fell	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	giant				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	aid	would	daughter	giant	time		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
3	sit down	past	giant			near daughter	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near she=Location
4	is	past	giant			long, there property	tree rules
5	fall	past	giant			asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «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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