Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 153

When you are climbing the tree, they will stick to the glass as if they had grown out of it; but when you are coming down, and have put your foot on each one, they will drop into your hand when you touch them.

Who acts: you, bones · What happens: climb, stick, grow out, come down, put, drop · To what, where: tree, foot, hand, bones

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 (you, bones), 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	SCONJ	_	4 climbing	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 climbing	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 climbing	aux
4	climbing	climb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stick	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbing	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 climbing	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 stick	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 stick	aux
10	stick	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 glass	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 glass	det
13	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stick	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 grown	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 grown	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 grown	aux
18	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stick	advcl
19	out	out	ADP	_	21 it	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 grown	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 coming	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 coming	cc
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 coming	advmod
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 coming	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 coming	aux
27	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stick	advcl
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 coming	advmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 put	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 put	cc
31	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 put	aux
32	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 stick	parataxis
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 foot	nmod:poss
34	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obj
35	on	on	ADP	_	37 one	case
36	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 one	det
37	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 put	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drop	punct
39	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 drop	nsubj
40	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 drop	aux
41	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 put	conj
42	into	into	ADP	_	44 hand	case
43	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 hand	nmod:poss
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 drop	obl
45	when	when	SCONJ	_	47 touch	mark
46	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 touch	nsubj
47	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 drop	advcl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 touch	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	climb	present · progressive	you	the tree			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme
2	stick	future	bones = bone			to the glass	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to glass=Co-Patient
3	grow out	past · perfect	bones = bone	tree			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
4	come down	present · progressive	you			down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	put	present · perfect		your foot		on each one	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on one=Destination
6	drop	future	bones = bone		your hand		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into hand=Trajectory
7	touch	present	you	bones = bone			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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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