Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VIII, sentence 34

In that service he came to such consideration that we hear of him as playing a match of chess with the king, and by this game we know that he was still a boy in his mind however mightily his limbs were spreading.

Who acts: King, we, limbs · What happens: come, hear, play, know, be, spread · To what, where: service, such consideration, match, boy, mind · 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, we, limbs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 service	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 service	det
3	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 consideration	case
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 consideration	amod
8	consideration	consideration	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 hear	obj
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 hear	nsubj
11	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 consideration	acl:relcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hear	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 playing	mark
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 hear	advcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 match	det
17	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 playing	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 chess	case
19	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 match	nmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 king	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 playing	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 know	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 know	cc
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 game	case
26	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 game	det
27	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	obl
28	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 know	nsubj
29	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 boy	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 boy	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 boy	cop
33	still	still	ADV	_	35 boy	advmod
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 boy	det
35	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 know	ccomp
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 mind	case
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 mind	nmod:poss
38	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 boy	nmod
39	however	however	ADV	_	40 mightily	advmod
40	mightily	mightily	ADV	_	44 spreading	advmod
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 limbs	nmod:poss
42	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 spreading	nsubj
43	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 spreading	aux
44	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 know	ccomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	King		that service		to such consideration	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to consideration=Initial_Location
2	hear	present	we	such consideration			of King	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus
3	play	gerund	we not said here	a match of chess			with the king	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent match=Theme with king=Co-Agent
4	know	present	we				by this game	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	is a	past	King	a boy	King's mind	still		tree rules
6	spread	past · progressive	King's limbs				mightily property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	mind		King					nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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