Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 212
He returned home and left them at the house.
Who acts: giant · What happens: return, leave · To what, where: axe, house
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | home | home | ADV | _ | 2 returned | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 left | cc |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 left | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | giant | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | giant not said here | axe | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme at house=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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