Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 21

"Poor miserable creature!" said the giant; "but weren't you impudent to come to my land and trouble me in this way?

Who acts: Poor miserable creature, you · What happens: say, not be, come · To what, where: giant, way · 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 (Poor miserable creature, you), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
3	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 giant	det
9	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 impudent	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 impudent	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 impudent	cc
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 impudent	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 impudent	advmod
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 impudent	nsubj
16	impudent	impudent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 said	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 come	mark
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 impudent	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	nmod:poss
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 trouble	cc
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 land	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 trouble	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 way	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 way	det
27	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 come	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Poor miserable creature	the giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
2	not is in a quote	past	you			impudent property	tree rules
3	come in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		this way	to my land and trouble	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to land=Initial_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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