Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 86

And the giant asked him, "Where is thy father when he has that brave rod?"

Who acts: giant, father · What happens: ask, be, have · To what, where: father, brave rod · 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, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 asked	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	iobj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Where	punct
8	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 father	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 father	cop
10	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	ccomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 has	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 has	nsubj
14	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 father	advcl
15	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 rod	det
16	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 rod	amod
17	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 has	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 father	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the giant		father	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a in a quote	present		thy father		tree rules
3	have in a quote	present	father	that brave rod		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rod=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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