Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 135

When I was going out the giant laid his hand on me, and he said, 'There thou art, thou pretty buck; thou seest me, but I see thee not.'

Who acts: I, giant, thou · What happens: go out, lay, say, buck, see, not see · To what, where: giant, hand, 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, giant, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 going	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 laid	advcl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 going	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	obj
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 hand	nmod:poss
10	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 laid	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 me	case
12	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 laid	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 art	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 art	punct
19	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 art	expl
20	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	21 art	nsubj
21	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 said	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 buck	punct
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 buck	nsubj
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	25 buck	advmod
25	buck	buck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 art	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 seest	punct
27	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 seest	nsubj
28	seest	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	parataxis
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 seest	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 see	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 see	cc
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
33	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	parataxis
34	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	33 see	obj
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct
37	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go out	past · progressive	I	the giant		tree rules
2	lay	past		giant's hand	on me	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on i=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	giant			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	buck	present	thou		pretty property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	present	thou	me		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
6	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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