Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 73

The giant turned back to the castle in rage and madness, and he said that if they did not send out the king's son to him, the highest stone of the castle would be the lowest.

Who acts: giant, rage, highest stone · What happens: turn back, say, not send out, be · To what, where: castle, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

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, rage, highest stone), 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 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 castle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 castle	det
7	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 rage	case
9	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 castle	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 madness	cc
11	madness	madness	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rage	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 turned	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 send	mark
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 send	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 send	nsubj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 send	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 send	advmod
21	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 send	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 son	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 king	case
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 send	vocative
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 send	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stone	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 stone	det
31	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 stone	amod
32	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 lowest	nsubj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 castle	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 castle	det
35	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stone	nmod
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 lowest	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 lowest	cop
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 lowest	det
39	lowest	low	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 said	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	the giant		the castle in rage and madness		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to castle=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	giant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not send out a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	rage	giant		the king's son vocative	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
4	is	would	the highest stone of the castle			low 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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