--- title: The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang (Introd. to Grimm, p. xiii.); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, _Three Wishes_). Who acts: smith, Lang, Tale. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., with its dependency tree and th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/) / 10 # Celtic Fairy Tales, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin., sentence 10 The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang (Introd. to Grimm, p. xiii.); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, \_Three Wishes\_). **Who acts:** smith, Lang, Tale · **What happens:** make, be, say · **To what, where:** hell, Sisyphus, Grimm, Billy Dawson, Ireland · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Lad With the Goat Skin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (smith, Lang, Tale), 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:pg7885:60:10 # text = The smith who made hell too hot for him is Sisyphus," says Mr. Lang (Introd. to Grimm, p. xiii.); in Ireland he is Billy Dawson (Carleton, _Three Wishes_). 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 smith smith NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 hell hell NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 10 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 Sisyphus Sisyphus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 " " PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod:desc _ _ 16 Lang Lang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 17 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Introd Introd PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Grimm Grimm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 24 xiii xiii NUM LS _ 23 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 25 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 Ireland Ireland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 Billy Billy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 Dawson Dawson PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ _ 34 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Carleton Carleton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 37 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 39 Wishes wish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the smith | hell | | | | for Tale; hot *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent hell=Product for he=Beneficiary | | 2 | **is a** | present | the smith | Sisyphus and Billy Dawson | Grimm | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | Lang Mr. and Introd | Sisyphus and Billy Dawson *not said here* | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sisyphus=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Tale | Billy Dawson | | Ireland | | | tree rules | 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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/60/11/) - ↑ back to [XXVI. 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