Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 5

When he had it gathered and tied, what should come up but a big giant, nine foot high, and made a lick of a club at him.

Who acts: Tom, rope · What happens: have, gather, tie, come up, make · To what, where: rope, lick

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, rope), 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	3 had	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	obj
5	gathered	gather	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 had	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tied	cc
7	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 gathered	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 come	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 come	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 had	parataxis
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 come	advmod
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 giant	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 giant	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 giant	amod
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 come	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 foot	punct
18	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 foot	nummod
19	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 giant	appos
20	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 foot	amod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 made	cc
23	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lick	det
25	lick	lick	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 made	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 club	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 club	det
28	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lick	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 club	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	have	past	Tom	rope	tree rules
2	gather	participle	rope not said here		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tie	participle	rope not said here		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	come up	should			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make	past		a lick of a club at Tom	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lick=Product

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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