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title: Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon: "Go out now and loosen my five golden cows and my bull without horns, and drive them to pasture; but when you have them out on the grass, be careful you don't let them go near the land of the giant." Who acts: Gruagach, Shee, cows
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 15

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Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon: "Go out now and loosen my five golden cows and my bull without horns, and drive them to pasture; but when you have them out on the grass, be careful you don't let them go near the land of the giant."

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**Who acts:** Gruagach, Shee, cows · **What happens:** say, go out, loosen, drive, pasture, have out · **To what, where:** Shee, five golden cows, cows, grass, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gruagach, Shee, cows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:19:15
# text = Next morning after breakfast the Gruagach said to the Shee an Gannon: "Go out now and loosen my five golden cows and my bull without horns, and drive them to pasture; but when you have them out on the grass, be careful you don't let them go near the land of the giant."
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Shee	Shee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Gannon	Gannon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
16	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	loosen	loosen	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	cows	cow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	parataxis	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	pasture	pasture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	39	advmod	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
40	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	RP	_	39	compound:prt	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
46	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	cop	_	_
47	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	parataxis	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
49	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	51	advmod	_	_
51	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	parataxis	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	near	near	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Gruagach |  | the Shee |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to shee=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  | now | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **loosen** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my five golden cows and my bull |  |  |  | without horns | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cow=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **pasture** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **have out** *in a quote* | present | the Shee *= shee* | cows *= cow* |  | the grass |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 7 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the Shee *= shee* | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* |  |  | the land of the giant |  |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near land=Location |

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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.

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**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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