Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 1

They were married in a haste which equalled the king’s desire; and as he did not again ask her name, and as she did not volunteer to give it, and as she brought no dowry to her husband and received none from him, she was called Becfola, the Dowerless.

Who acts: haste, she, king, her · What happens: marry, equall, ask, not volunteer, give, bring · To what, where: They, haste, desire, name, dowry, husband · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haste, she, king, her), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 married	nsubj:pass
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	aux:pass
3	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 haste	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 haste	det
6	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 married	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 equalled	nsubj
8	equalled	equall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 haste	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 desire	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 equalled	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 ask	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 ask	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 ask	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 did	advmod
19	again	again	ADV	_	20 ask	advmod
20	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 married	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 name	nmod:poss
22	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 ask	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 volunteer	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 volunteer	cc
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 volunteer	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 volunteer	nsubj
27	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 volunteer	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 volunteer	advmod
29	volunteer	volunteer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 ask	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 give	mark
31	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 volunteer	xcomp
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 give	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 brought	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 brought	cc
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 brought	mark
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 brought	nsubj
37	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 married	conj
38	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	39 dowry	det
39	dowry	dowry	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obj
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 husband	case
41	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 husband	nmod:poss
42	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 brought	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 received	cc
44	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 brought	conj
45	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	44 received	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 him	case
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 received	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 called	punct
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 called	nsubj:pass
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 called	aux:pass
51	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 married	conj
52	Becfola	Becfola	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 called	xcomp
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 Dowerless	punct
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 Dowerless	det
55	Dowerless	Dowerless	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 Becfola	conj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past · passive		They		a haste			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	equall	past	a haste	the king's desire					tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past · do-support		her name			again		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient
4	not volunteer	past · do-support	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	give	to-infinitive	she not said here	name					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
6	bring	past	she	no dowry	her husband				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dowry=Theme to husband=Destination
7	receive	past	she not said here	none				from king	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent none=Theme from he=Source
8	call	past · passive		she					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
9	desire		the king						nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
10	name		her = she						nom name «communication 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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