Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 7
The Shee an Gannon made no answer, but left the king and pushed away to know could he find why the Gruagach was silent.
Who acts: Shee, king, Gruagach · What happens: make, leave, push away, know, find, be · To what, where: answer, king · 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 (Shee, king, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Shee | det |
| 2 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 made | nsubj |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Gannon | det |
| 4 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Shee | appos |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 answer | det |
| 7 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 left | cc |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pushed | cc |
| 14 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 pushed | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 pushed | advcl |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 find | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 find | nsubj |
| 20 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 know | ccomp |
| 21 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 silent | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gruagach | det |
| 23 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 silent | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 silent | cop |
| 25 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 find | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Shee | no answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | ||||
| 2 | leave | past | the king | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push away | past | away property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 5 | find | could | king | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | past | the Gruagach | silent property | tree rules |
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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