Celtic Fairy Tales, A Legend of Knockmany, sentence 123

"I know that," says Cucullin; "divil a thing else he'd make of me; but before I go, will you let me feel what kind of teeth Fin's lad has got that can eat griddle-bread like that?"

Who acts: Cucullin, you, that · What happens: know, say, make, go, let, feel · To what, where: thing, Cucullin, kind, griddle 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, you, that), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 says	ccomp
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 know	mark
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 says	punct
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Cucullin	Cucullin	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 divil	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 divil	punct
11	divil	divil	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 thing	det
13	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 divil	appos
14	else	else	ADV	_	13 thing	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	nsubj
16	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 make	aux
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 thing	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 me	case
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 make	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 let	cc
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
24	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 let	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 go	punct
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 let	aux
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 let	nsubj
28	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 says	ccomp
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 let	obj
30	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 let	xcomp
31	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	32 kind	det
32	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	nsubj:pass
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 teeth	case
34	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 kind	nmod
35	Fin	Fin	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 lad	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Fin	case
37	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 teeth	nmod
38	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 got	aux
39	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 feel	ccomp
40	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 eat	nsubj
41	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 eat	aux
42	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 got	parataxis
43	griddle	griddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 bread	compound
44	-	-	PUNCT	_	43 griddle	punct
45	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 eat	obj
46	like	like	ADP	_	47 that	case
47	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 eat	obl
48	?	?	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct
49	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	know in a quote	present	Cucullin			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: ask	present	Cucullin			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make in a quote	would	Cucullin	a thing not said here	of Cucullin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product
4	go in a quote	present	Cucullin			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	let in a quote	future	you	Cucullin		tree rules
6	feel in a quote	infinitive	Cucullin not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	get in a quote	present · perfect · passive		what kind of teeth Fin's lad		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
8	eat in a quote	can	that	griddle bread	like that	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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