Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 90

He'll tell you the whole story from beginning to end, and show you the tongues of the giant."

Who acts: Gaire · What happens: tell, show · To what, where: whole story, you, beginning, tongues · 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 (Gaire), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tell	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	aux
3	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 beginning	case
9	beginning	beginning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 story	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 end	case
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 show	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 show	cc
14	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 show	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 tongues	det
17	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 show	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 giant	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 giant	det
20	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tongues	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	future	Gaire	the whole story	you		from beginning; to end		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient story=Topic
2	show	infinitive		the tongues of the giant	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient tongue=Topic

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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