Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 5

Not one was able to get it and tell me what stopped the Gruagach Gaire from laughing.

Who acts: one · What happens: not be, get, tell, stop, laugh · To what, where: knowledge, me, Gruagach Gaire · 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 (one), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 able	advmod
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 able	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 able	cop
4	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 able	xcomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 tell	cc
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Gaire	det
14	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Gaire	compound
15	Gaire	Gaire	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	obj
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 laughing	mark
17	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 stopped	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not is	past	one			able property	tree rules
2	get	to-infinitive	one not said here	knowledge			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	one not said here		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
4	stop	past		the Gruagach Gaire			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality gaire=Eventuality
5	laugh	gerund					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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