Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 84

When they were gone a little bit from the earth, the giant showed him the rod that was in his hand and said: "What would thy father do with this rod if he had it?"

Who acts: giant, rod, father · What happens: go, show, be, say, do, have · To what, where: castle, earth, rod, hand, bit · 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, rod, father), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 gone	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux:pass
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 showed	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 earth	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 earth	det
10	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 showed	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giant	det
13	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 showed	nsubj
14	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 showed	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 rod	det
17	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 showed	obj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 hand	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 hand	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 hand	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 hand	nmod:poss
22	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rod	acl:relcl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 showed	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
27	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 do	obj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
29	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 father	nmod:poss
30	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	nsubj
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 said	ccomp
32	with	with	ADP	_	34 rod	case
33	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 rod	det
34	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obl
35	if	if	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 do	advcl
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 had	obj
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	31 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · passive		castle		the earth		tree rules
2	show	past	the giant	the rod	earth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient rod=Topic
3	is	past	the rod			earth's hand		tree rules
4	say speech: ask	past	the giant not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do in a quote	would	thy father				with this rod	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	father	bit				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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