Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 12

Well, when the sticks were all burned, Tom was sent off again to pick more; and this time he had to fight with a giant that had two heads on him.

Who acts: Tom, time, giant · What happens: burn, send off, pick, have, fight · To what, where: sticks, Tom, time, two heads

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, time, giant), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	8 burned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 burned	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 burned	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sticks	det
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 burned	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 burned	aux:pass
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 burned	advmod
8	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sent	punct
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 sent	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sent	aux:pass
12	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 burned	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 sent	compound:prt
14	again	again	ADV	_	12 sent	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pick	mark
16	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sent	advcl
17	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 pick	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 burned	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 time	cc
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 time	det
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burned	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 time	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fight	mark
25	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 had	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 giant	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 giant	det
28	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fight	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 giant	acl:relcl
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 heads	nummod
32	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 had	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 burned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	burn	past · passive		the sticks		all property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	send off	past · passive		Tom	again		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	pick	to-infinitive					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient
4	have	past	Tom	this time not said here			tree rules
5	fight	to-infinitive	this time not said here			with a giant	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with giant=Co-Agent
6	have	past	a giant	two heads		on Tom	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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