Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 205
The giant came headlong, and there he is fleecing his head and neck in the thorns.
Who acts: giant, weasel · What happens: come, fleece · To what, where: head, thorns
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, weasel), 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 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 came | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fleecing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fleecing | cc |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 fleecing | expl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fleecing | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 fleecing | aux |
| 10 | fleecing | fleece | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fleecing | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 neck | cc |
| 14 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 thorns | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 thorns | det |
| 17 | thorns | thorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fleecing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the giant | headlong property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fleece | present · progressive | weasel | weasel's head and neck | the thorns; there | vn cheat-10.6.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Source |
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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