Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 44

Next day, Redhead told Tom of a wolf, the size of a yearling heifer, that used to be serenading about the walls, and eating people and cattle; and said what a pleasure it would give the king to have it killed.

Who acts: Redhead, yearling heifer, pleasure · What happens: tell, use, serenade, eat, say, give · To what, where: Tom, people, king, pleasure · 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 (Redhead, yearling heifer, pleasure), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 day	amod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 wolf	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tom	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 size	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 size	det
12	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Tom	appos
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 heifer	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 heifer	det
15	yearling	yearling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heifer	compound
16	heifer	heifer	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 size	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 used	punct
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 used	nsubj
19	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 heifer	acl:relcl
20	to	to	PART	_	22 serenading	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 serenading	aux
22	serenading	serenade	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 used	advcl
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 walls	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 walls	det
25	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 serenading	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eating	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eating	cc
28	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 serenading	conj
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 eating	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cattle	cc
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 people	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 said	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 said	cc
34	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	40 give	obj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 pleasure	det
37	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 give	nsubj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 give	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 give	aux
40	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 said	ccomp
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 king	det
42	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 give	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 have	mark
44	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 king	acl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 have	obj
46	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 have	xcomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Redhead		Tom of a wolf	day		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient
2	use	past	a yearling heifer					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	serenade	to-infinitive · progressive	a yearling heifer not said here				about the walls	tree rules
4	eat	gerund	a yearling heifer not said here	people and cattle				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
5	say speech: assert	past	Redhead not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	give	would	a pleasure	the king				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient king=Theme
7	have	to-infinitive	a pleasure not said here	pleasure				tree rules
8	kill	participle	pleasure not said here					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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