Celtic Fairy Tales, VI. Hudden and Dudden., sentence 24

_Remarks_.--It is indeed curious to find, as M. Cosquin points out, a cunning fellow tied in a sack getting out by crying, "I won't marry the princess," in countries so far apart as Ireland, Sicily (Gonzenbach, No. 71), Afghanistan (Thorburn, _Bannu_, p. 184), and Jamaica (_Folk-Lore Record_, iii.

Who acts: Remarks, M., sack · What happens: be, find, point out, tie, get out, cry · To what, where: cunning fellow, sack, princess, countries · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VI. Hudden and Dudden.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks, M., sack), 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	_	2 Remarks	punct
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 curious	nsubj
3	_	_	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	_	2 Remarks	punct
5	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 curious	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 curious	cop
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	8 curious	advmod
8	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 curious	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 points	punct
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 points	mark
13	M.	M.	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 points	nsubj
14	Cosquin	Cosquin	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 M.	flat
15	points	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 curious	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 points	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fellow	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fellow	det
19	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fellow	amod
20	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 points	obl
21	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 fellow	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 sack	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 sack	det
24	sack	sack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 tied	obl
25	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 sack	acl
26	out	out	ADP	_	25 getting	compound:prt
27	by	by	SCONJ	_	28 crying	mark
28	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 getting	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fellow	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 marry	nsubj
32	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 marry	aux
33	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 marry	advmod
34	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 points	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 princess	det
36	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 marry	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 marry	punct
39	in	in	ADP	_	40 countries	case
40	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 marry	obl
41	so	so	ADV	_	42 far	advmod
42	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 apart	advmod
43	apart	apart	ADV	_	34 marry	advmod
44	as	as	ADP	_	45 Ireland	case
45	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 apart	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Sicily	punct
47	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 apart	parataxis
48	(	(	PUNCT	_	49 Gonzenbach	punct
49	Gonzenbach	Gonzenbach	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 Sicily	appos
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 No.	punct
51	No.	No.	PROPN	Abbr=Yes Number=Sing	49 Gonzenbach	appos
52	71	71	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	51 No.	flat
53	)	)	PUNCT	_	51 No.	punct
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Afghanistan	punct
55	Afghanistan	Afghanistan	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Gonzenbach	appos
56	(	(	PUNCT	_	57 Thorburn	punct
57	Thorburn	Thorburn	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 Afghanistan	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 Bannu	punct
59	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 Bannu	punct
60	Bannu	Bannu	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Gonzenbach	appos
61	_	_	PUNCT	_	60 Bannu	punct
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 p.	punct
63	p.	P.	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 Gonzenbach	conj
64	184	184	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	63 p.	flat
65	)	)	PUNCT	_	49 Gonzenbach	punct
66	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 iii	punct
67	and	and	CCONJ	_	77 iii	cc
68	Jamaica	Jamaica	PROPN	Number=Sing	77 iii	nsubj
69	(	(	PUNCT	_	71 Folk	punct
70	_	_	PUNCT	_	71 Folk	punct
71	Folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 Jamaica	appos
72	-	-	PUNCT	_	73 Lore	punct
73	Lore	Lore	PROPN	Number=Sing	71 Folk	appos
74	Record	Record	PROPN	Number=Sing	73 Lore	flat
75	_	_	PUNCT	_	68 Jamaica	punct
76	,	,	PUNCT	_	77 iii	punct
77	iii	III	NUM	NumForm=Roman NumType=Card	8 curious	obl
78	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 curious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Remarks			iii obl; curious, indeed property	tree rules
2	find	to-infinitive	Remarks not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	point out	present	M.	a cunning fellow			vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tie	participle		a cunning fellow not said here	a sack		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	get out	gerund	a sack not said here				vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	gerund	a sack not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	not marry in a quote	future	a sack = sack	the princess	countries	apart property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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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