Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 24

He would know every one who was present, for the fame of all men is sealed at Tara, and behind his chair a herald stood to tell anything the king might not know or had forgotten.

Who acts: dais, one, herald, king · What happens: know, be, seal, stand, tell, not know · To what, where: one, fame, Tara, chair, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dais, one, herald, king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 know	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 know	aux
3	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 know	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 present	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 present	cop
8	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 fame	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fame	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fame	det
12	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sealed	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 men	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fame	nmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sealed	aux:pass
17	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 know	ccomp
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 Tara	case
19	Tara	Tara	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 sealed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stood	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
22	behind	behind	ADP	_	24 chair	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 chair	nmod:poss
24	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 herald	det
26	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 know	parataxis
28	to	to	PART	_	29 tell	mark
29	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 stood	xcomp
30	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	29 tell	obj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 king	det
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 know	nsubj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 know	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 know	advmod
35	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 tell	ccomp
36	or	or	CCONJ	_	38 forgotten	cc
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 forgotten	aux
38	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 stood	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	would	dais	every one			tree rules
2	is	past	every one			present property	tree rules
3	seal	present · passive		the fame of all men	Tara		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	stand	past	a herald		dais's chair		tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	a herald not said here	anything			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent anything=Recipient clause=Topic
6	not know	might	the king				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	forget	past · perfect	a herald not said here				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: «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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