Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 230

Every one he met gave him welcome and luck, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him; but as mishap was to be, an old greyhound was indoors, and she knew him, and jumped up to his mouth, and after that he did not remember the giant's daughter.

Who acts: man, one, old greyhound, greyhound · What happens: meet, give, charge, not kiss, be, know · To what, where: one, man, father, daughter

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 (man, one, old greyhound, greyhound), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gave	nsubj
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	iobj
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gave	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 luck	cc
9	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 welcome	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 charged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 charged	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 charged	nsubj
13	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gave	conj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 charged	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 mother	cc
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 father	conj
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 kiss	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 kiss	mark
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 charged	advcl
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kiss	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 indoors	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 indoors	cc
24	as	as	ADP	_	25 mishap	case
25	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 indoors	obl
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 indoors	cop
27	to	to	PART	_	34 indoors	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 indoors	cop
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 indoors	punct
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 greyhound	det
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 greyhound	amod
32	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 indoors	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 indoors	cop
34	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	5 gave	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 knew	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 knew	cc
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knew	nsubj
38	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 indoors	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 knew	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 jumped	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 jumped	cc
42	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 knew	conj
43	up	up	ADP	_	42 jumped	compound:prt
44	to	to	ADP	_	46 mouth	case
45	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 mouth	nmod:poss
46	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 jumped	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 remember	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 remember	cc
49	after	after	SCONJ	_	54 remember	mark
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	54 remember	mark
51	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 remember	nsubj
52	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 remember	aux
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 remember	advmod
54	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 jumped	parataxis
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 giant	det
56	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 daughter	nmod:poss
57	's	's	PART	_	56 giant	case
58	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 remember	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	meet	past	man	every one not said here			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent
2	give	past	every one		man	welcome property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	charge	past	man	man's father and mother			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location father=Theme
4	not kiss	to-infinitive	man not said here	father			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
5	is	past	a old greyhound			as mishap; indoors property	tree rules
6	know	past	greyhound	father			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
7	jump up	past	greyhound not said here			to man's mouth result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result
8	not remember	past · do-support	man	the giant's daughter			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent daughter=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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