Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 53
In a twinkling the giant put each garden, and orchard, and castle in the bundle as they were before.
Who acts: you, castle · What happens: twinkle, put, be · To what, where: garden
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 (you, castle), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 giant | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 3 | twinkling | twinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 giant | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 giant | det |
| 5 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 orchard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 orchard | cc |
| 11 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 castle | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 castle | cc |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 bundle | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bundle | det |
| 17 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 castle | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 before | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 before | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 before | cop |
| 21 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 put | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twinkle | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | put | imperative | you not said here | each garden | in a twinkling giant; orchard obl; castle in the bundle obl | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent garden=Theme in giant=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | castle | before property | tree rules |
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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