Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 67

The giant went away with him; but he had not gone far when he put a rod in the hand of the little laddie.

Who acts: giant · What happens: go away, not go, put · To what, where: rod, hand

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	obl
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 gone	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 gone	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 gone	advmod
12	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 gone	advmod
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 put	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rod	det
18	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 hand	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hand	det
21	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 laddie	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 laddie	det
24	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 laddie	amod
25	laddie	laddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hand	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go away	past	the giant			with son; away property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary
2	not go	past · perfect	giant			far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	past	giant	a rod	the hand of the little laddie		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rod=Theme in hand=Destination

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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