Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 215
He got a splinter of grey stone, and in a twinkling there were twenty miles, by breadth and height, of great grey rock behind them.
Who acts: giant · What happens: get · To what, where: splinter, twinkling
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 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 splinter | det |
| 4 | splinter | splinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 splinter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 twinkling | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 twinkling | cc |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 twinkling | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 twinkling | det |
| 12 | twinkling | twinkling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obl |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 were | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 twinkling | acl:relcl |
| 15 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 miles | nummod |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 were | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 breadth | punct |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 breadth | case |
| 19 | breadth | breadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 miles | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 height | cc |
| 21 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 breadth | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rock | punct |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rock | case |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rock | amod |
| 25 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rock | amod |
| 26 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 twinkling | conj |
| 27 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 rock | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | giant | a splinter of grey stone | a twinkling and great grey rock behind miles | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer splinter=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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