Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 88
"What reason had you to strike the man who won my daughter?"
Who acts: reason, you, man · What happens: have, strike, win · To what, where: you, man, daughter
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 (reason, you, man), 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 | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 had | obj |
| 3 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 had | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 strike | mark |
| 7 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 strike | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 won | nsubj |
| 11 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 man | acl:relcl |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 13 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 won | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | past | reason | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the man | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent man=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | win in a quote | past | the man | my daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
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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