Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 257

Again there fell three other grains of barley, and the silver pigeon sprung, and ate that up as before.

Who acts: silver pigeon · What happens: fall, spring, eat up · To what, where: three other grains, that

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 (silver pigeon), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 fell	expl
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 grains	nummod
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grains	amod
6	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 barley	case
8	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grains	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sprung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sprung	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 pigeon	det
12	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pigeon	compound
13	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sprung	nsubj
14	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fell	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ate	cc
17	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 ate	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	17 ate	compound:prt
20	as	as	ADP	_	21 before	case
21	before	before	ADV	_	17 ate	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fall	past		three other grains of barley	there	again	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient grain=Result
2	spring	participle	the silver pigeon				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	eat up	past		that			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient

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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