Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II, sentence 3
There are few kings who can boast of more kingly results than he can, but there was sore trouble in store for him.
Who acts: few kings, sore trouble · What happens: be, boast · To what, where: store
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 (few kings, sore trouble), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg2892:1900): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kings | amod |
| 4 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 boast | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 boast | aux |
| 7 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 kings | acl:relcl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 results | case |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 kingly | advmod |
| 10 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 results | amod |
| 11 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 boast | obl |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 can | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 can | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 boast | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 was | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 was | cc |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 was | expl |
| 18 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 are | conj |
| 19 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 trouble | amod |
| 20 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | nsubj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 store | case |
| 22 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 was | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 was | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | few kings | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | boast speech: other | can | few kings | of kingly results | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | be | past | sore trouble | store; there | for Ri | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in store=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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