Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 79
Then the cowboy said to the Gruagach: "It's a bad thing you have done to me, for the daughter of the king of Erin will be married the day after your laugh is heard."
Who acts: cowboy, world, Gruagach, your · What happens: say, be, do, marry, hear, laugh · To what, where: Gruagach, bad thing, cowboy, 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 (cowboy, world, Gruagach, your), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 said | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cowboy | det |
| 3 | cowboy | cowboy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Gruagach | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Gruagach | det |
| 7 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thing | punct |
| 10 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 thing | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 thing | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 thing | det |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 thing | amod |
| 14 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 married | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 thing | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 done | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 daughter | punct |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 daughter | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 daughter | det |
| 23 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thing | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 king | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 daughter | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Erin | case |
| 28 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 king | nmod |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 married | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 married | aux:pass |
| 31 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | ccomp |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 married | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 38 heard | mark |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 laugh | nmod:poss |
| 36 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heard | nsubj |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 heard | aux:pass |
| 38 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 married | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the cowboy | the Gruagach | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to gruagach=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | world | a bad thing and the daughter of the king of Erin | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present · perfect | the Gruagach = gruagach | a bad thing and the daughter of the king of Erin not said here | the cowboy = cowboy | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | marry in a quote | future · passive | a bad thing and the daughter of the king of Erin | day | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | hear in a quote | present · passive | your laugh | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | laugh in a quote | your | nom laugh «communication intransitive»: poss=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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