Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 22

So this--he wasn't a bellman, and I don't know what to call him--bugleman, maybe, proclaimed that the King of Dublin's daughter was so melancholy that she didn't give a laugh for seven years, and that her father would grant her in marriage to whoever could make her laugh three times.

Who acts: this, I, daughter, Dublin, father, whoever · What happens: not be, not know, call, proclaim, be, not give · To what, where: bellman, o, melancholy, laugh, Dublin, marriage · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, I, daughter, Dublin), 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	_	8 bellman	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 bellman	nsubj
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	8 bellman	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bellman	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bellman	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 bellman	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bellman	det
8	bellman	bellman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 know	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 know	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 know	nsubj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 know	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 know	advmod
14	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 bellman	conj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 call	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 call	mark
17	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 know	ccomp
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 call	obj
19	--	--	PUNCT	_	20 bugleman	punct
20	bugleman	bugleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 know	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proclaimed	punct
22	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	24 proclaimed	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proclaimed	punct
24	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 bugleman	parataxis
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 melancholy	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 daughter	nmod:poss
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 Dublin	case
29	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 King	nmod
30	's	's	PART	_	27 King	case
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 melancholy	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 melancholy	cop
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 melancholy	advmod
34	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 proclaimed	ccomp
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 give	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 give	nsubj
37	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 give	aux
38	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	39 give	advmod
39	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 melancholy	acl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 laugh	det
41	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 give	obj
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 years	case
43	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 years	nummod
44	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 give	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 grant	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 grant	cc
47	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 grant	mark
48	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 father	nmod:poss
49	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 grant	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 grant	aux
51	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proclaimed	conj
52	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 grant	obj
53	in	in	ADP	_	54 marriage	case
54	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 grant	obl
55	to	to	SCONJ	_	58 make	mark
56	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	58 make	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 make	aux
58	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 grant	advcl
59	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 make	obj
60	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 make	xcomp
61	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 times	nummod
62	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 laugh	obl:unmarked
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 bellman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	this	a bellman				tree rules
2	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	call	to-infinitive		o				vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result
4	proclaim	past					maybe property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	the King of Dublin's daughter	melancholy				tree rules
6	not give	past · do-support	Dublin	a laugh		year		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laugh=Theme
7	grant	would	Dublin's father	Dublin	marriage			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	make	could	whoever	Dublin				tree rules
9	laugh	infinitive	Dublin not said here			time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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