Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 40

When he was in this state the Gruagach said: "I'll tell you what stopped my laughing if you set me free."

Who acts: cowboy, Gruagach, you · What happens: be, say, tell, stop, laugh, set · To what, where: state, you, Gruagach · 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 (cowboy, Gruagach, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 state	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 state	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 state	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 state	case
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 state	det
6	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Gruagach	det
8	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tell	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 stopped	nsubj
17	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	ccomp
18	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 laughing	nsubj
19	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 tell	ccomp
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 set	mark
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 set	nsubj
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	advcl
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 set	obj
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 set	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	cowboy			this state		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the Gruagach					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	future	the Gruagach = gruagach		you			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stop in a quote	past						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	laugh in a quote	gerund	the Gruagach = gruagach					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	set a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	the Gruagach = gruagach			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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