Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 74

In the morning the master of the house went into the next room, took down the twelve iron loops with a wooden one, brought them out, and asked the cowboy which would he take, the twelve iron or the one wooden loop.

Who acts: master, cowboy · What happens: go, take down, bring out, ask, take · To what, where: next room, twelve iron loops, loops, twelve iron, cowboy

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 (master, cowboy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 master	det
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 house	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 master	nmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	13 room	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 room	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 room	amod
13	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	parataxis
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 loops	det
18	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 loops	nummod
19	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 loops	compound
20	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 one	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 one	det
23	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 one	amod
24	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 brought	punct
26	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 brought	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	26 brought	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 asked	cc
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 went	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cowboy	det
33	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obj
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 take	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 take	aux
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 take	nsubj
37	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cowboy	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 iron	punct
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 iron	det
40	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 iron	nummod
41	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obl
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	46 loop	cc
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 loop	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 loop	compound
45	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 loop	amod
46	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 iron	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the master of the house			the next room	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	take down	past		the twelve iron loops				with a wooden one	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Theme
3	bring out	past		loops = loop					vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	ask speech: ask	past	the master of the house not said here	the twelve iron or the one wooden loop	the cowboy				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cowboy=Recipient
5	take	would	the cowboy						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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