Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 35

On the third morning, instead of seeing the raven as at the other times, who should meet him but the handsomest lad he ever saw, with gold rings in his hair, with a bundle in his hand.

Who acts: other times, handsomest lad · What happens: see, meet · To what, where: raven, son, gold rings, hair

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 (other times, handsomest lad), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 morning	punct
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	8 seeing	mark
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 raven	det
10	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
11	as	as	ADP	_	15 times	case
12	at	at	ADP	_	15 times	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 times	det
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 times	amod
15	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seeing	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 meet	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 meet	nsubj
18	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 meet	aux
19	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 times	parataxis
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 meet	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 saw	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 lad	det
23	handsomest	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 lad	amod
24	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 saw	nsubj
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 saw	advmod
27	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 meet	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 rings	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 rings	case
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rings	compound
31	rings	ring	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 saw	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 hair	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hair	nmod:poss
34	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rings	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 bundle	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	38 bundle	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 bundle	det
38	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 saw	conj
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 hand	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 hand	nmod:poss
41	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 bundle	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	see	gerund		the raven		morning; time	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus
2	meet	should	the other times	son			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	see	past	the handsomest lad	gold rings	son's hair	ever	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus

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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