Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 83

"We must indeed," said the Gruagach; and at it they went, threw the people some on one side and some on the other, and soon they had an opening for themselves to the king's castle.

Who acts: Gruagach, sons · What happens: say, go, throw, have · To what, where: road, some, people, one side, opening · 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 (Gruagach, sons), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 must	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 must	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	3 must	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 must	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 must	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Gruagach	det
9	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	obl
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 threw	punct
17	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 went	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 threw	obj
20	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 threw	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 side	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 side	nummod
23	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 threw	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 some	cc
25	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 side	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 other	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 other	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 some	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 had	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 had	cc
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	33 had	advmod
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 had	nsubj
33	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 opening	det
35	opening	opening	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obj
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 themselves	case
37	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 had	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	42 castle	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 king	det
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 castle	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 king	case
42	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 had	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Gruagach					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	sons = son			road		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at it=Location
3	throw	past	sons = son not said here	some	the people	one side		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent people=Destination some=Theme
4	have	past	sons = son	a opening			for sons = son; to the king's castle; soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opening=Patient

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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