Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 216

The giant came full pelt, but past the rock he could not go.

Who acts: giant · What happens: come, not go · To what, where: full pelt, rock

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	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	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pelt	amod
5	pelt	pelt	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
8	past	past	ADP	_	10 rock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rock	det
10	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the giant	full pelt					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pelt=Theme
2	not go	could	giant			the rock			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme past rock=Initial_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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