Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 227

The giant came on, but with the speed he had on him, he was in the middle of the loch, and he went under, and he rose no more.

Who acts: giant, son · What happens: come on, have, be, go, rise · To what, where: middle, more

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, son), 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	on	on	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 speed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speed	det
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 middle	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 middle	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 middle	cop
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 middle	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 middle	det
19	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 loch	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 loch	det
22	loch	loch	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 middle	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 went	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 went	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 went	nsubj
26	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
27	under	under	ADP	_	26 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rose	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 rose	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 rose	nsubj
31	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 rose	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come on	past	the giant				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	have	past	son			with the speed; on loch	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	son		the middle	of the loch	tree rules
4	go	past	son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rise	past	son	more			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=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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