---
title: They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting t… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting the upper hand; and then the cowboy thought that if the giant should kill him, his father and mother would never find him or set eyes on him again, and he would never get the daughter of the king of Erin. Who acts: pieces, giant, cow
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/26/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Ga…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/) / 26

# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 26

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting the upper hand; and then the cowboy thought that if the giant should kill him, his father and mother would never find him or set eyes on him again, and he would never get the daughter of the king of Erin.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** pieces, giant, cowboy, father · **What happens:** fight, get, think, kill, not find, not get · **To what, where:** upper hand, cowboy, daughter

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, giant, cowboy, father), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7885:19:26
# text = They fought till late in the afternoon, when the giant was getting the upper hand; and then the cowboy thought that if the giant should kill him, his father and mother would never find him or set eyes on him again, and he would never get the daughter of the king of Erin.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	set	set	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nmod	_	_
44	again	again	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
47	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
48	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
50	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	55	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | past | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past · progressive | the giant | the upper hand |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the cowboy |  |  |  | then |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **kill** *a condition, not said to happen* | should | the giant | cowboy |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **find** | would | cowboy's father and mother | cowboy |  |  | again |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **get** | would | cowboy | the daughter of the king of Erin |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/25/)
- next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/27/)
- ↑ back to [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/)