Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 91

So the Gruagach came up and told the king the whole story, how the Shee an Gannon had become his cowboy, had guarded the five golden cows and the bull without horns, cut off the heads of the five-headed giant, killed the wizard hare, and brought his own twelve sons to life. "

Who acts: Gruagach, Shee, horns · What happens: come up, tell, become, guard, cut off, kill · To what, where: whole story, king, cowboy, five golden cows, heads, wizard hare · 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, Shee, horns), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Gruagach	det
3	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 told	cc
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 king	det
9	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 story	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 story	amod
12	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 become	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 become	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Shee	det
16	Shee	Shee	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 become	nsubj
17	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 Gannon	det
18	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Shee	appos
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 become	aux
20	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 story	acl:relcl
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cowboy	nmod:poss
22	cowboy	cowboy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 become	xcomp
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 guarded	punct
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 guarded	aux
25	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 told	conj
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cows	det
27	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 cows	nummod
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 cows	amod
29	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guarded	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 bull	cc
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 bull	det
32	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 cows	conj
33	without	without	ADP	_	34 horns	case
34	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 guarded	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cut	punct
36	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 horns	acl
37	off	off	ADP	_	39 heads	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 heads	det
39	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 cut	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	45 giant	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 giant	det
42	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 headed	nummod
43	-	-	PUNCT	_	42 five	punct
44	headed	headed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 giant	amod
45	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 heads	nmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 killed	punct
47	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 hare	det
49	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 hare	amod
50	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 killed	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 brought	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 brought	cc
53	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 sons	nmod:poss
55	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 sons	amod
56	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	57 sons	nummod
57	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 brought	obj
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 life	case
59	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 brought	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	53 brought	punct
61	"	"	PUNCT	_	53 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come up	past	the Gruagach					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Gruagach not said here	the whole story	the king			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient story=Topic
3	become	past · perfect	the Shee	Gruagach's cowboy				vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	guard	past · perfect	the Gruagach not said here		the five golden cows and the bull		without horns	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Beneficiary
5	cut off	participle	horns not said here	the heads of the headed giant				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality
6	kill	past	the Gruagach not said here	the wizard hare				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme
7	bring	past	the Gruagach not said here	Gruagach's own twelve sons		life		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to life=Destination

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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