Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 80
The giant returned in a very great rage and anger.
What happens: return · To what, where: giant, great rage
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: 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 | root | root |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 giant | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 rage | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rage | amod |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 anger | cc |
| 10 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rage | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | the giant not said here | a great rage and anger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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