Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 131

I let out one of the goats, and there he was caressing her, and he said to her, 'There thou art thou shaggy, hairy white goat; and thou seest me, but I see thee not.'

Who acts: I, leech, thou · What happens: let out, caress, say, see, not see · To what, where: bard, me, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, leech, thou), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 let	compound:prt
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 let	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 goats	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 goats	det
7	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 caressing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caressing	cc
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 caressing	expl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 caressing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caressing	aux
13	caressing	caress	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 let	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 caressing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 art	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	25 art	punct
23	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 art	expl
24	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 art	nsubj
25	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 said	parataxis
26	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 art	obj
27	shaggy	shaggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 art	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 goat	punct
29	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 goat	amod
30	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 goat	amod
31	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 shaggy	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 seest	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 seest	cc
34	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 seest	nsubj
35	seest	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
36	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 seest	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 see	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	40 see	cc
39	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	40 see	nsubj
40	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 seest	conj
41	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	40 see	obj
42	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 see	advmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct
44	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	let out	present	I				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	caress	past · progressive	leech	bard		there	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Experiencer
3	say speech: assert	past	leech		bard		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
4	see	present	thou	me			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	not see	present	I	thee			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus

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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