Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 86

At last says the ould thief of all, rubbing his elbow, "Let the fool out; and woe to whoever lets him in again, great or small."

Who acts: whoever · What happens: say, rub, let, fool out, let in · To what, where: ould thief, last, elbow, Tom · 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 (whoever), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	obl
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thief	det
5	ould	ould	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thief	amod
6	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 thief	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rubbing	punct
10	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 says	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 elbow	nmod:poss
12	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 Let	punct
15	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 rubbing	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 fool	det
17	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 Let	xcomp
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 fool	compound:prt
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 woe	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 woe	cc
21	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 great	nsubj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 whoever	case
23	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 lets	nsubj
24	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 woe	acl:relcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lets	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	24 lets	compound:prt
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 lets	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 great	punct
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 small	cc
31	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 great	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 great	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 great	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present		the ould thief of all	last		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thief=Topic
2	rub	gerund		Tom's elbow			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent elbow=Theme
3	let in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
4	fool out in a quote	infinitive					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	let in in a quote	present	whoever	Tom		again	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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