Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 93
When the king of Erin heard what the Gruagach said, and saw the tongues of the giant fitted in the head, he made the Shee an Gannon kneel down by his daughter, and they were married on the spot.
Who acts: king, Gruagach, Gannon · What happens: hear, say, see, fit, make, kneel down · To what, where: tongues, giant, head, Shee, spot · 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 (king, Gruagach, Gannon), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 heard | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Erin | case |
| 5 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 king | nmod |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 made | advcl |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | obj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gruagach | det |
| 9 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 saw | cc |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 heard | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tongues | det |
| 15 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 giant | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 giant | det |
| 18 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tongues | nmod |
| 19 | fitted | fit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 giant | acl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 head | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fitted | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 heard | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Shee | det |
| 27 | Shee | Shee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Gannon | det |
| 29 | Gannon | Gannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kneel | nsubj |
| 30 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 made | parataxis |
| 31 | down | down | ADP | _ | 30 kneel | compound:prt |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 daughter | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 34 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kneel | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 married | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 married | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 married | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 married | aux:pass |
| 39 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 made | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 spot | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 spot | det |
| 42 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 married | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the king of Erin | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Gruagach | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the king of Erin not said here | the tongues of the giant | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tongue=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | fit | participle | the giant not said here | the head | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in head=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | make | past | Gruagach | the Shee | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shee=Product | ||||
| 6 | kneel down | infinitive | a Gannon | by Gruagach's daughter | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by daughter=Location | ||||
| 7 | marry | past · passive | tongues = tongue | the spot | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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