--- title: "When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had of gold and silver, and I went home, and surely great joy was on my people when I arrived. Who acts: ring, giant, great joy. 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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 (ring, giant, great joy), 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:pg7885:9:153 # text = "When the giant was drowned I went in, and I took with me all he had of gold and silver, and I went home, and surely great joy was on my people when I arrived. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 advcl _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 in in ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 obj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 27 home home ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 surely surely ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 34 on on ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 37 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 39 advmod _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drown** *in a quote* | past · passive | | the giant | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **go in** *in a quote* | past | the ring *= ring* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | past | the ring *= ring* | all | | | | with the ring *= ring* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | | 4 | **have** *in a quote* | past | giant | | | | | of gold and silver | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | the ring *= ring* | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | past | great joy | | | | | on my people | tree rules | | 7 | **arrive** *in a quote* | past | the ring *= ring* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/152/) - next →: [sentence 154](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/154/) - ↑ back to [Conall Yellowclaw](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/9/)