Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 163

As he went up, the king's son put the bones of Auburn Mary's body against the side of the tree, using them as steps, till he came under the nest and stood on the last bone.

Who acts: son · What happens: go up, put, use, come, stand · To what, where: bones, side, nest, last bone

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 (son), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 went	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 son	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 king	case
9	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	nsubj
10	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bones	det
12	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 put	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 body	case
14	Auburn	Auburn	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Mary	compound
15	Mary	Mary	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 body	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 Mary	case
17	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bones	nmod
18	against	against	ADP	_	20 side	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 side	det
20	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 tree	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 tree	det
23	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 side	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 using	punct
25	using	use	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 put	advcl
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 using	obj
27	as	as	ADP	_	28 steps	case
28	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 using	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
30	till	till	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	parataxis
33	under	under	ADP	_	35 nest	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 nest	det
35	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 stood	cc
37	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 came	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 bone	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 bone	det
40	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 bone	amod
41	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 stood	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go up	past	son				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	put	past	the king's son	the bones of Auburn Mary's body	the side of the tree		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme against side=Destination
3	use	gerund	the king's son not said here	bones = bone		as steps	vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent they=Duration as step=Attribute
4	come	past	son		the nest		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under nest=Location
5	stand	past	son not said here		the last bone		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bone=Location

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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