Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 33

But when the cowboy was on the way home with the cattle, the son of the king of Tisean came and took the giant's heads and claimed the princess in marriage when the Gruagach Gaire should laugh.

Who acts: cowboy, way, Gruagach Gaire · What happens: be, come, take, claim, laugh · To what, where: way, heads, princess, marriage

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 (cowboy, way, Gruagach Gaire), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 way	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cowboy	det
4	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 way	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
9	home	home	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 cattle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cattle	det
12	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 son	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cattle	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 king	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 king	det
18	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 son	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Tisean	case
20	Tisean	Tisean	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 king	nmod
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 took	cc
23	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 giant	det
25	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heads	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 giant	case
27	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 claimed	cc
29	claimed	claim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 came	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 princess	det
31	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 claimed	obj
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 marriage	case
33	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 claimed	obl
34	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 laugh	advmod
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Gaire	det
36	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Gaire	compound
37	Gaire	Gaire	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 laugh	nsubj
38	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 laugh	aux
39	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 claimed	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cowboy		the way	with the cattle; home property	tree rules
2	come	past	the way				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take	past	the way not said here	the giant's heads			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	claim speech: other	past	the way not said here	the princess	marriage		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent princess=Topic
5	laugh	should	the Gruagach Gaire				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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