Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 32

"Do you see all them merry fellows and skilful swordsmen," says the other, "that could eat you up with a grain of salt, and not a mother's soul of 'em ever got a laugh from her these seven years?"

Who acts: you, all, that, soul · What happens: see, fellow, say, eat up, get · To what, where: other, you, laugh · 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 (you, all, that, soul), 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	_	4 see	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 see	nsubj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	ccomp
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 fellows	nsubj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 all	nmod
7	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fellows	amod
8	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 swordsmen	cc
10	skilful	skilful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 swordsmen	amod
11	swordsmen	swordsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fellows	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 see	punct
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 says	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 eat	punct
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 eat	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 says	parataxis
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	up	up	ADP	_	21 eat	compound:prt
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 grain	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 grain	det
26	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 eat	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 salt	case
28	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grain	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 soul	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 soul	cc
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 soul	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 mother	det
33	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 soul	nmod:poss
34	's	's	PART	_	33 mother	case
35	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 'em	case
37	'em	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 soul	nmod
38	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	39 got	advmod
39	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 says	ccomp
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 laugh	det
41	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 got	obj
42	from	from	ADP	_	46 years	case
43	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 years	nmod:poss
44	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	46 years	det
45	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 years	nummod
46	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 got	obl
47	?	?	PUNCT	_	39 got	punct
48	"	"	PUNCT	_	39 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fellow in a quote		all				tree rules
3	say speech: ask	present		the other			tree rules
4	eat up in a quote	could	that	you		with a grain of salt	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
5	get in a quote	past	a mother's soul of 'em	a laugh	ever; year		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer laugh=Stimulus

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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