Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 40

The king's son turned his back to the lad, and his face to his father's house; and he got lodging from the raven's sisters, just as he got it when going forward.

Who acts: son, lad · What happens: turn, get, lodge, go · To what, where: back, lad

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 son	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 lad	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lad	det
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 face	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 face	cc
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 face	nmod:poss
14	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	19 house	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 house	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 father	case
19	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 face	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 got	nsubj
23	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 turned	parataxis
24	lodging	lodge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 got	xcomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 sisters	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 raven	det
27	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sisters	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 raven	case
29	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lodging	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 got	punct
31	just	just	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 got	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	conj
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 got	obj
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 going	advmod
37	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 got	advcl
38	forward	forward	ADV	_	37 going	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the king's son	son's back	the lad	lad's face to lad's father's house obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent back=Theme to lad=Trajectory
2	get	past	lad				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	lodge	gerund	lad not said here			from the raven's sisters	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	past	lad	back			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	go	gerund	lad not said here			forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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