Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 226

He threw it behind him and there was a fresh-water loch, twenty miles in length and breadth, behind them.

Who acts: son, fresh water loch · What happens: throw, be · To what, where: ear

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 (son, fresh water loch), 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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 was	cc
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 threw	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 loch	det
10	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 loch	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 fresh	punct
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 loch	compound
13	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 was	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 miles	punct
15	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 miles	nummod
16	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 loch	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 length	case
18	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 miles	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 breadth	cc
20	breadth	breadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 length	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 them	punct
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	23 them	case
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 threw	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	son	ear				behind king	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination
2	be	past	a fresh water loch and twenty miles in length and breadth			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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