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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 92

And then," said the Gruagach, "he is the only man in the whole world I have ever told why I stopped laughing, and the only one who has ever seen my fleece of wool."

Who acts: Gruagach, only man, I · What happens: say, be, tell, stop, laugh, see · To what, where: only man, whole world, I, only one · 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, only man, I), 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

ccadvmodpunctpunctdetnsubjpunctpunctnsubjcopdetamodapposcasedetamodnmodnsubj:passauxadvmodacl:relcladvmodnsubjccompxcomppunctccdetamodnsubj:passnsubjauxadvmodccompnmod:possobjcasenmodpunctpunctrootAndCCONJthenADV,PUNCT"PUNCTsaidVERBtheDETGruagachPROPN,PUNCT"PUNCThePRONisAUXtheDETonlyADJmanNOUNinADPtheDETwholeADJworldNOUNIPRONhaveAUXeverADVtoldVERBwhyADVIPRONstoppedVERBlaughingVERB,PUNCTandCCONJtheDETonlyADJoneNOUNwhoPRONhasAUXeverADVseenVERBmyPRONfleeceNOUNofADPwoolNOUN.PUNCT"PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AndandCCONJ_5 saidcc
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem5 saidadvmod
3,,PUNCT_2 thenpunct
4""PUNCT_5 saidpunct
5saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 Gruagachdet
7GruagachGruagachPROPNNumber=Sing5 saidnsubj
8,,PUNCT_14 manpunct
9""PUNCT_14 manpunct
10hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 mannsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin14 mancop
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 mandet
13onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos14 manamod
14manmanNOUNNumber=Sing7 Gruagachappos
15ininADP_18 worldcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 worlddet
17wholewholeADJDegree=Pos18 worldamod
18worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing14 mannmod
19IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 toldnsubj:pass
20havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin22 toldaux
21evereverADVPronType=Ind22 toldadvmod
22toldtellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass14 manacl:relcl
23whywhyADVPronType=Int25 stoppedadvmod
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 stoppednsubj
25stoppedstopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 toldccomp
26laughinglaughVERBVerbForm=Ger25 stoppedxcomp
27,,PUNCT_35 seenpunct
28andandCCONJ_35 seencc
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 onedet
30onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos31 oneamod
31oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing35 seennsubj:pass
32whowhoPRONPronType=Rel35 seennsubj
33hashaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin35 seenaux
34evereverADVPronType=Ind35 seenadvmod
35seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 saidccomp
36mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 fleecenmod:poss
37fleecefleeceNOUNNumber=Sing35 seenobj
38ofofADP_39 woolcase
39woolwoolNOUNNumber=Sing37 fleecenmod
40..PUNCT_5 saidpunct
41""PUNCT_5 saidpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assert in a quotepastthe Gruagachthenvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2is apresentGruagachthe only manthe whole worldtree rules
3tell speech: assertpresent · perfect · passivethe only man not said hereIevervn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4stoppastIvn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5laughgerundI not said herevn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6seepresent · perfect · passivethe only oneevertree rules

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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