---
title: Every one he met gave him welcome and luck, and he charged his fathe… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Every one he met gave him welcome and luck, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him; but as mishap was to be, an old greyhound was indoors, and she knew him, and jumped up to his mouth, and after that he did not remember the giant's daughter. Who acts: man, one, old greyhound, greyhound
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/230/)

<!-- 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 Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/) / 230

# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 230

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Every one he met gave him welcome and luck, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him; but as mishap was to be, an old greyhound was indoors, and she knew him, and jumped up to his mouth, and after that he did not remember the giant's daughter.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man, one, old greyhound, greyhound · **What happens:** meet, give, charge, not kiss, be, know · **To what, where:** one, man, father, daughter

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, one, old greyhound, greyhound), 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:pg7885:31:230
# text = Every one he met gave him welcome and luck, and he charged his father and mother not to kiss him; but as mishap was to be, an old greyhound was indoors, and she knew him, and jumped up to his mouth, and after that he did not remember the giant's daughter.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	_
7	welcome	welcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	kiss	kiss	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	mishap	mishap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	indoors	indoors	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	parataxis	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
49	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	54	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
52	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
54	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	parataxis	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	's	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | man | every one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **give** | past | every one |  | man |  |  | welcome *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **charge** | past | man | man's father and mother |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location father=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **kiss** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | father |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | a old greyhound |  |  |  |  | as mishap; indoors *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **know** | past | greyhound | father |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **jump up** | past | greyhound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to man's mouth *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result |
| 8 | **not** **remember** | past · do-support | man | the giant's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |

<!-- .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 229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/229/)
- next →: [sentence 231](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/231/)
- ↑ back to [The Battle of the Birds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/31/)