Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 61
After what he had seen and heard, the cowboy said: "I know now why you don't laugh, and small blame to you.
Who acts: man, cowboy, you · What happens: see, hear, say, know, not laugh · 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, cowboy, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 seen | mark |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 seen | obj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seen | aux |
| 5 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heard | cc |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 seen | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 seen | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cowboy | det |
| 10 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 know | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | ccomp |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 know | advmod |
| 17 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 laugh | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 laugh | nsubj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 laugh | aux |
| 20 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 laugh | advmod |
| 21 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 know | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 blame | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blame | cc |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 blame | amod |
| 25 | blame | blame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | ccomp |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 blame | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | hear | participle | man not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the cowboy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | know in a quote | present | the cowboy = cowboy | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | not laugh in a quote | present · do-support | you | 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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