Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 90

On a day of days when the giant was from home, the lad heard the sweetest music he ever heard in a room at the top of the giant's house.

Who acts: giant, lad · What happens: be, hear · To what, where: home, sweetest music, room

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, lad), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 days	case
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 day	nmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 home	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 giant	det
8	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 home	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 home	cop
10	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 days	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lad	det
14	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	nsubj
15	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 music	det
17	sweetest	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 music	amod
18	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heard	obj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 heard	nsubj
20	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	21 heard	advmod
21	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 music	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 room	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 room	det
24	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 top	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 top	det
27	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heard	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 house	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 giant	det
30	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 house	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 giant	case
32	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 top	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the giant		home			tree rules
2	hear	past	the lad	the sweetest music		day		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
3	hear	past	giant	the sweetest music not said here	a room	ever	at the top of the giant's house	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus

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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