Celtic Fairy Tales, The Field of Boliauns, sentence 27

"Why, all the about them there is, is that when they were here they taught us to make beer out of the heath, and the secret's in my family ever since."

Who acts: Danes · What happens: be, make · To what, where: beer, heath

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Field of Boliauns. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Danes), 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 Why	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 is	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 is	nsubj
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 the	nmod
8	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 is	expl
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Why	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 taught	cop
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 taught	mark
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 here	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 here	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 here	cop
16	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 taught	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taught	nsubj
18	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Why	advcl
19	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 taught	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 make	mark
21	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 taught	xcomp
22	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
23	out	out	ADP	_	26 heath	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 heath	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heath	det
26	heath	heath	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 since	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 since	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 secret	det
30	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 since	nsubj
31	's	's	PART	_	30 secret	case
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 family	case
33	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 family	nmod:poss
34	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 secret	nmod
35	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	36 since	advmod
36	since	since	ADV	_	2 Why	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	36 since	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	36 since	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	Danes = dane			here property	tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	Danes = dane			teach property	tree rules
3	make in a quote	to-infinitive	Danes = dane not said here	beer	the heath		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beer=Product

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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