Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 176
The giant's house was shaking from top to bottom.
Who acts: house · What happens: shake
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 (house), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 giant | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 house | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 giant | case |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaking | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shaking | aux |
| 6 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 shaking | obl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bottom | case |
| 10 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shaking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past · progressive | the giant's house | from top to bottom | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from top=Stimulus |
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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