Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 24

"You nasty brute," said the cowboy, coming down to him from the tree, "'tis little I care for you;" and then they went at each other.

Who acts: You, nasty brute, pieces · What happens: brute, say, come down, care, go · To what, where: cowboy, brute, tree, each · 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 (You, nasty brute, pieces), 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 brute	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 brute	nsubj
3	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brute	amod
4	brute	brute	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 brute	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 brute	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 cowboy	det
9	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 coming	punct
11	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 coming	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 coming	obl
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 tree	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tree	det
17	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 coming	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
20	'	'	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
21	tis	tis	ADP	_	22 little	case
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 care	obl
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 care	nsubj
24	care	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 you	case
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 care	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 care	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
30	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 went	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 went	nsubj
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 each	case
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	32 went	obl
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brute in a quote		You						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	nasty brute	the cowboy					tree rules
3	come down	gerund	nasty brute not said here		brute	the tree		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location from tree=Destination
4	care in a quote	present	nasty brute = brute					tis little; for you	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for you=Theme
5	go	past	pieces = piece			each	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at each=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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