Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 60
When he had said this, the Gruagach showed the cowboy his back covered with thick black wool.
Who acts: man, Gruagach · What happens: say, show, cover · To what, where: this, cowboy, back · 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 (man, Gruagach), 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 | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 showed | advcl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gruagach | det |
| 8 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | nsubj |
| 9 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cowboy | det |
| 11 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showed | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cowboy | nmod |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 back | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wool | case |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wool | amod |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wool | amod |
| 18 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 covered | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | man | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | ||||
| 2 | show | past | the Gruagach | the cowboy man's back | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cowboy=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | cover | participle | man's back not said here | with thick black wool | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wool=Theme |
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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