Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 72

He catches him by the two small ankles and knocks him against the stone that was beside him.

Who acts: Thou'rt, that · What happens: catch, knock, be · To what, where: giant, stone

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 (Thou'rt, that), 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 catches	nsubj
2	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catches	obj
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 ankles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ankles	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 ankles	nummod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ankles	amod
8	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 catches	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 knocks	cc
10	knocks	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 catches	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 knocks	obj
12	against	against	ADP	_	14 stone	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stone	det
14	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 knocks	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 him	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 him	cop
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 stone	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 catches	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	catch	present	Thou'rt	giant		by the two small ankles	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	knock	present	Thou'rt not said here	giant	the stone		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme against stone=Destination
3	is	past	that			beside Thou'rt	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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