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" **Who acts:** Gruagach, Shee, horns · **What happens:** come up, tell, become, guard, cut off, kill · **To what, where:** whole story, king, cowboy, five golden cows, heads, wizard hare · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, horns), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7885:19:91 # text = So the Gruagach came up and told the king the whole story, how the Shee an Gannon had become his cowboy, had guarded the five golden cows and the bull without horns, cut off the heads of the five-headed giant, killed the wizard hare, and brought his own twelve sons to life. " 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Gruagach Gruagach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 14 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Shee Shee PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 Gannon Gannon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 appos _ _ 19 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 cowboy cowboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 28 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 cows cow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 without without ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 37 off off ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 headed headed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 47 killed kill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 wizard wizard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 53 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 55 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 56 twelve twelve NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 nummod _ _ 57 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 53 obj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 59 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 53 punct _ _ 61 " " PUNCT '' _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | the Gruagach | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the Gruagach *not said here* | the whole story | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient story=Topic | | 3 | **become** | past · perfect | the Shee | Gruagach's cowboy | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **guard** | past · perfect | the Gruagach *not said here* | | the five golden cows and the bull | | | without horns | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Beneficiary | | 5 | **cut off** | participle | horns *not said here* | the heads of the headed giant | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | | 6 | **kill** | past | the Gruagach *not said here* | the wizard hare | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme | | 7 | **bring** | past | the Gruagach *not said here* | Gruagach's own twelve sons | | life | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent son=Theme to life=Destination | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 90](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/90/) - next →: [sentence 92](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/92/) - ↑ back to [The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/19/)