Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 36

"What keeps you from laughing, you who used to laugh so loud that the whole world heard you?"

Who acts: you, whole world · What happens: keep, laugh, use, hear · To what, where: you

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, whole world), 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	_	3 keeps	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 laughing	mark
6	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keeps	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 used	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 used	nsubj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 used	nsubj
10	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 keeps	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 laugh	mark
12	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 used	xcomp
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 loud	advmod
14	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 laugh	xcomp
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 heard	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 world	det
17	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 world	amod
18	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 heard	nsubj
19	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 loud	advcl
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 heard	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present		you		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	laugh in a quote	gerund				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	use in a quote	past	you			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	laugh in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hear in a quote	past	the whole world	you		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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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