Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 197

The giant jumped on his feet, and to the bed he went, but it was cold--empty.

Who acts: giant, bed · What happens: jump, go, be · To what, where: feet, bed

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, bed), 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 jumped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cold	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 cold	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 cold	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cold	cop
18	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumped	parataxis
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 empty	punct
20	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cold	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	jump	past	the giant	giant's feet		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory
2	go	past	giant	the bed		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location
3	is	past	bed		cold property	tree rules
4	be		bed not said here			tree rules

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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