Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 106

Cucullin was thunderstruck, and secretly thanked his stars that he had the good fortune to miss meeting Fin, for, as he said to himself, "I'd have no chance with a man who could eat such bread as that, which even his son that's but in his cradle can munch before my eyes."

Who acts: Cucullin, chance · What happens: thunderstruck, thank, have, miss, meet, say · To what, where: Cucullin, stars, good fortune, Fin, chance, such bread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, A Legend of Knockmany. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cucullin, chance), 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	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 thunderstruck	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thunderstruck	aux:pass
3	thunderstruck	thunderstruck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thanked	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thanked	cc
6	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	7 thanked	advmod
7	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thunderstruck	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stars	nmod:poss
9	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 thanked	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thanked	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fortune	det
14	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fortune	amod
15	fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 miss	mark
17	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fortune	acl
18	meeting	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 miss	xcomp
19	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 meeting	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 for	punct
21	for	for	ADP	_	12 had	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 said	punct
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 said	mark
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 said	nsubj
25	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 had	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 himself	case
27	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 said	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	32 have	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 have	nsubj
31	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 have	aux
32	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 said	conj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 chance	det
34	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 have	obj
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 man	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eat	obl
38	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 eat	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 eat	aux
40	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 chance	acl
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 bread	amod
42	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eat	obj
43	as	as	ADP	_	44 that	case
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 eat	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 son	punct
46	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 son	nsubj
47	even	even	ADV	_	49 son	advmod
48	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 son	nmod:poss
49	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 eat	parataxis
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 munch	obj
51	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 munch	cop
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	57 munch	cc
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 cradle	case
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 cradle	nmod:poss
55	cradle	cradle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 munch	obl
56	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 munch	aux
57	munch	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 son	acl:relcl
58	before	before	ADP	_	60 eyes	case
59	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 eyes	nmod:poss
60	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 munch	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thunderstruck	punct
62	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thunderstruck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thunderstruck	past · passive		Cucullin					tree rules
2	thank speech: thank	past		Cucullin's stars				secretly property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme
3	have	past	Cucullin	the good fortune					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient
4	miss	to-infinitive	Cucullin not said here	the good fortune not said here					vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	meet	gerund	Cucullin not said here	Fin					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Co-Agent
6	say speech: assert	past	Cucullin		Cucullin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
7	have in a quote	would	Cucullin	no chance					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
8	eat in a quote	could	no chance	such bread				with a man; as no chance	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
9	son in a quote								tree rules
10	is in a quote	can · present				Cucullin's cradle	before my eyes	munch property	tree 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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