Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 75

She dressed up the butler's son, and she gives him to the giant by the hand.

Who acts: queen · What happens: dress up, give · To what, where: son

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 (queen), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dressed	nsubj
2	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dressed	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 butler	det
5	butler	butler	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 butler	case
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dressed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gives	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gives	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	nsubj
11	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dressed	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gives	iobj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 giant	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 giant	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gives	obl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 hand	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 giant	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dress up	past	queen	the butler's son					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
2	give	present	queen		son			to the giant	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to giant=Recipient

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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