--- title: He went up, put his back against the wall, and threw in a great stre… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He went up, put his back against the wall, and threw in a great stretch of it; then he went inside and threw out another great stretch of the wall, and put the five golden cows and the bull without horns on the land of the giant. Who acts: cowboy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cowboy), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:19:17 # text = He went up, put his back against the wall, and threw in a great stretch of it; then he went inside and threw out another great stretch of the wall, and put the five golden cows and the bull without horns on the land of the giant. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 against against ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 stretch stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 24 inside inside ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 27 out out ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ _ 28 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 29 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stretch stretch NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 39 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 44 without without ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go up** | past | cowboy | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **put** | infinitive | cowboy *not said here* | cowboy's back | | the wall | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme against wall=Destination | | 3 | **throw** | past | | | | a great stretch of wall | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in stretch=Destination | | 4 | **go** | past | cowboy | | | | then | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **throw out** | past | cowboy *not said here* | another great stretch of the wall | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stretch=Theme | | 6 | **put** | infinitive | cowboy *not said here* | | the five golden cows and the bull | | | without horns on the land of the giant | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cow=Goal | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/18/) - ↑ back to [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/)