Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 39

He took these down, caught the Gruagach, fastened him by the three smalls, and tied him so that his little toes were whispering to his ears.

Who acts: cowboy, little toes · What happens: take down, catch, fasten, tie, whisper · To what, where: these, Gruagach, cowboy, ears

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, little toes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 took	obj
4	down	down	ADV	_	2 took	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 caught	punct
6	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gruagach	det
8	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 caught	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fastened	punct
10	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fastened	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 smalls	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 smalls	det
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 smalls	nummod
15	smalls	small	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fastened	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tied	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 tied	cc
18	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 tied	obj
20	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 whispering	mark
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 so	fixed
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 toes	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 toes	amod
24	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 whispering	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 whispering	aux
26	whispering	whisper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 tied	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 ears	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 ears	nmod:poss
29	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 whispering	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	take down	past	cowboy	these		down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme
2	catch	past	cowboy not said here	the Gruagach			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gruagach=Theme
3	fasten	past	cowboy not said here	cowboy		by the three smalls	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	tie	past	cowboy not said here	cowboy			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
5	whisper speech: assert	past · progressive	cowboy's little toes		cowboy's ears		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to ear=Recipient

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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