Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 15
Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon: "Go out now and loosen my five golden cows and my bull without horns, and drive them to pasture; but when you have them out on the grass, be careful you don't let them go near the land of the giant."
Who acts: Gruagach, Shee, cows · What happens: say, go out, loosen, drive, pasture, have out · To what, where: Shee, five golden cows, cows, grass, land · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Gruagach, Shee, cows), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 breakfast | case |
| 4 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Gruagach | det |
| 6 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Shee | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Shee | det |
| 10 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Gannon | det |
| 12 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Shee | appos |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Go | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 Go | punct |
| 15 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 Go | advmod |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 Go | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 loosen | cc |
| 19 | loosen | loosen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 Go | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cows | nmod:poss |
| 21 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 cows | nummod |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 cows | amod |
| 23 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loosen | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bull | cc |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bull | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cows | conj |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 horns | case |
| 28 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 loosen | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 drive | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drive | cc |
| 31 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Go | parataxis |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 drive | obj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 pasture | mark |
| 34 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 drive | xcomp |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 careful | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 47 careful | cc |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 have | advmod |
| 38 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 careful | advcl |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 have | obj |
| 41 | out | out | ADP | _ | 39 have | compound:prt |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 grass | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 grass | det |
| 44 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 careful | cop |
| 47 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | parataxis |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 let | nsubj |
| 49 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 51 let | aux |
| 50 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 51 let | advmod |
| 51 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 careful | parataxis |
| 52 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 let | obj |
| 53 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 let | xcomp |
| 54 | near | near | ADP | _ | 56 land | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 land | det |
| 56 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 go | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 59 giant | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 giant | det |
| 59 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 land | nmod |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 let | punct |
| 61 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Gruagach | the Shee | morning | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shee=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | go out in a quote | infinitive | now | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | loosen in a quote | infinitive | my five golden cows and my bull | without horns | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drive in a quote | infinitive | cows = cow | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 5 | pasture in a quote | to-infinitive | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | have out in a quote | present | the Shee = shee | cows = cow | the grass | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 7 | is in a quote | infinitive | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | not let in a quote | present · do-support | the Shee = shee | cows = cow | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | go in a quote | infinitive | cows = cow not said here | the land of the giant | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near land=Location |
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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