Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 178
She put out the hand off which the little finger was, and he caught her by the hand.
Who acts: bride, giant · What happens: put out, be, catch · To what, where: hand, bride
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 (bride, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hand | det |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 was | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 finger | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 finger | amod |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 was | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 caught | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 caught | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | nsubj |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | parataxis |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 caught | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hand | det |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put out | past | bride | the hand | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 2 | be | past | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | catch | past | giant | bride | by the hand | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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