Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 78
The master of the house went out and brought the twelve to life again; and when the Gruagach saw all his sons alive and as well as ever, he let a laugh out of himself, and all the Eastern world heard the laugh.
Who acts: master, Gruagach, a, Eastern world · What happens: go out, bring, see, let, laugh, hear · To what, where: twelve, life, sons, a, laugh
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, Gruagach, a, Eastern world), 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 master | det |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 master | nmod |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 twelve | det |
| 11 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 life | case |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 saw | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 saw | cc |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 saw | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Gruagach | det |
| 19 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 sons | det:predet |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sons | nmod:poss |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 saw | obj |
| 24 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sons | amod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ever | cc |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 ever | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 29 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 alive | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 let | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 let | nsubj |
| 32 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 saw | conj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 let | obj |
| 34 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 let | xcomp |
| 35 | out | out | ADP | _ | 37 himself | case |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 himself | case |
| 37 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 34 laugh | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 heard | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 heard | cc |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 world | det:predet |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 42 | Eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 world | amod |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 heard | nsubj |
| 44 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 laugh | det |
| 46 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 heard | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | the master of the house | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | bring | past | the master of the house not said here | the twelve | life | again | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent twelve=Theme to life=Destination | ||
| 3 | see | past | the Gruagach | master's sons | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer son=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | let | past | master | a | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | laugh | infinitive | a not said here | out master | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | hear | past | all Eastern world | the laugh | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer laugh=Stimulus |
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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