Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 32

That evening the Gruagach couldn't find vessels enough in all his place to hold the milk of the five golden cows.

What happens: not find, hold · To what, where: vessels, milk

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: 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 evening	det
2	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 find	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Gruagach	det
4	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 evening	appos
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 find	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 find	advmod
7	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	vessels	vessel	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 find	obj
9	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 find	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 place	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 place	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 place	nmod:poss
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enough	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 hold	mark
15	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 place	acl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 milk	det
17	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 hold	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 cows	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 cows	det
20	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 cows	nummod
21	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 cows	amod
22	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 milk	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 find	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	could		vessels			evening		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme enough=Attribute
2	hold	to-infinitive		the milk of the five golden cows					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=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.

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