Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 28

The king marvelled at the stories that were told of this new hunter, but as kings are greater than other people so they are more curious; and, being on the plane of excellence, they must see all that is excellently told of.

Who acts: king, animals · What happens: marvell, tell, be, see · To what, where: stories, plane, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, animals), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marvelled	nsubj
3	marvelled	marvell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 stories	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stories	det
6	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 marvelled	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 told	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	aux:pass
9	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stories	acl:relcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 hunter	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 hunter	det
12	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hunter	amod
13	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 told	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 greater	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 greater	cc
16	as	as	ADP	_	17 kings	case
17	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 greater	obl
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 greater	cop
19	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 marvelled	conj
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 people	case
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 people	amod
22	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 greater	obl
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	27 curious	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 curious	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 curious	cop
26	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 curious	advmod
27	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 greater	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 plane	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 plane	cc
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 and	punct
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 plane	cop
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 plane	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 plane	det
34	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 marvelled	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 excellence	case
36	excellence	excellence	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 plane	nmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 see	punct
38	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 see	nsubj
39	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 see	aux
40	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 marvelled	conj
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 told	det:predet
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 told	nsubj:pass
43	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 told	aux:pass
44	excellently	excellently	ADV	_	45 told	advmod
45	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 see	ccomp
46	of	of	ADP	_	45 told	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 marvelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	marvell	past	the king		the stories		tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		the stories		of this new hunter	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	is	present	the king not said here			as kings; than other people; great property	tree rules
4	is	present	animals = animal			curious property	tree rules
5	is	gerund			the plane	of excellence	tree rules
6	see	must	animals = animal				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	tell speech: assert	present · passive		that		excellently property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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