Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30

They told the truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted from that slender-handed, gold-haired, thin-lipped, blithe enchantress, and he required them to discover some means whereby he might retain his wife and his crown.

Who acts: poets, king, some · What happens: tell, not bear, part, hand, lip, require · To what, where: truth, king, that, blithe enchantress, poets, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets, king, some), 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	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 truth	det
4	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 king	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bear	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 bear	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 bear	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bear	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 bear	advmod
13	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 parted	mark
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 parted	aux:pass
16	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 bear	advcl
17	from	from	SCONJ	_	21 handed	mark
18	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 handed	nsubj:pass
19	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 handed	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 slender	punct
21	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 parted	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 haired	punct
23	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 haired	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 gold	punct
25	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 handed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 lipped	punct
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lipped	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 thin	punct
29	lipped	lip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 haired	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 enchantress	punct
31	blithe	blithe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 enchantress	amod
32	enchantress	enchantress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lipped	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 required	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 required	cc
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 required	nsubj
36	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 required	obj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 discover	mark
39	discover	discover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 required	xcomp
40	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 means	nsubj
41	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 discover	ccomp
42	whereby	whereby	ADV	PronType=Int	45 retain	advmod
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 retain	nsubj
44	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 retain	aux
45	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 means	ccomp
46	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 wife	nmod:poss
47	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 retain	obj
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 crown	cc
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 crown	nmod:poss
50	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 wife	conj
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	poets = poet	the truth	the king		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Topic to king=Recipient
2	not bear	could	king				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
3	part	to-infinitive · passive	king not said here				vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V»
4	hand	participle · passive		that			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
5	lip	participle		blithe enchantress			tree rules
6	require	past	king	poets = poet			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
7	discover	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	mean	present	some				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	retain	might	king	king's wife and king's crown		whereby property	tree rules
10	crown		king				nom crown «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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