Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 131

He thought he would go back to the house, and he sees the byre thatched with feathers.

Who acts: giant · What happens: think, go back, see, thatch · To what, where: byre · 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), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	ccomp
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sees	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sees	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sees	nsubj
13	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 byre	det
15	byre	byre	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sees	obj
16	thatched	thatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 byre	acl
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 feathers	case
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 thatched	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	giant			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go back	would	giant		to the house result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result
3	see	present	giant	the byre		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer byre=Stimulus
4	thatch	participle		the byre not said here	with feathers	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with feather=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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