Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 46

He stood full of wonder and regret for having loosed the bundle--for it was not in his power to put it back again--and he would have wished this pretty place to be in the pretty little green hollow that was opposite his father's house; but he looked up and saw a great giant coming towards him.

Who acts: lad, bundle, pretty little green hollow, great giant · What happens: stand, regret, loose, not be, put back, wish · To what, where: bundle, pretty place, pretty little green hollow, great giant

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 (lad, bundle, pretty little green hollow, great giant), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stood	xcomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wonder	case
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 regret	cc
7	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	conj
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 loosed	mark
9	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 loosed	aux
10	loosed	loose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 regret	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bundle	det
12	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loosed	obj
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 power	punct
14	for	for	ADP	_	20 power	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 power	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 power	cop
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 power	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 power	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 power	nmod:poss
20	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 loosed	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 put	mark
22	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 power	acl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 put	obj
24	back	back	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
25	again	again	ADV	_	22 put	advmod
26	--	--	PUNCT	_	31 wished	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 wished	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wished	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 wished	aux
30	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 wished	aux
31	wished	wish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 stood	conj
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 place	det
33	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 place	amod
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 wished	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	42 hollow	mark
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	42 hollow	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	42 hollow	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hollow	det
39	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hollow	amod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hollow	amod
41	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hollow	amod
42	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 place	nmod
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 opposite	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 opposite	cop
45	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 hollow	acl:relcl
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 father	nmod:poss
47	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 house	nmod:poss
48	's	's	PART	_	47 father	case
49	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 opposite	obl
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 looked	punct
51	but	but	CCONJ	_	53 looked	cc
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 looked	nsubj
53	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stood	parataxis
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 looked	compound:prt
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 saw	cc
56	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 looked	conj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 giant	det
58	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 giant	amod
59	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 saw	obj
60	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	59 giant	acl
61	towards	towards	ADP	_	62 him	case
62	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 coming	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	lad				full property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	regret	present	lad not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	loose	gerund · perfect	lad not said here	the bundle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient
4	not is	past	bundle				for lad's power	tree rules
5	put back	to-infinitive	lad not said here	bundle		again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
6	wish	would · perfect	lad	this pretty place				vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot place=Theme
7	is	to-infinitive			the pretty little green hollow			tree rules
8	is	past	the pretty little green hollow				lad's father's house obl; opposite property	tree rules
9	look up	past	lad					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	see	past	lad not said here	a great giant				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer giant=Stimulus
11	come	gerund	a great giant not said here				towards lad	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards he=Initial_Location

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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