Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 20

Guleesh, you clown, you thief, that no good may happen you, why did you play that trick on us?"

Who acts: you, good · What happens: clown, thief, happen, play · To what, where: you, trick

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, good), 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	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 clown	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Guleesh	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 clown	nsubj
4	clown	clown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thief	punct
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 thief	nsubj
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clown	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 happen	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 happen	mark
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 good	det
11	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 happen	nsubj
12	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 happen	aux
13	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clown	conj
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 happen	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 play	punct
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	19 play	advmod
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 play	aux
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 play	nsubj
19	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 happen	conj
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 trick	det
21	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 play	obj
22	on	on	ADP	_	23 us	case
23	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 play	obl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clown	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 clown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	clown	present	you		Guleesh vocative	tree rules
2	thief		you			tree rules
3	happen	may	no good	you		tree rules
4	play	past · do-support	you	that trick	on us	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=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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