Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 15

The next giant was a beautiful boy with three heads on him.

Who acts: next giant · What happens: be · To what, where: beautiful boy

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 (next 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 boy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 boy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 boy	det
6	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 heads	case
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 heads	nummod
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 boy	nmod
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 boy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the next giant	a beautiful boy				with three heads on Tom	tree rules

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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