Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V, sentence 1

The High King did not know where exactly he should look for such a saviour, but he was well educated and knew how to look for whatever was lacking.

Who acts: High King, King, whatever · What happens: not know, look, educate, know, lack · To what, where: King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (High King, King, whatever), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
2	High	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 King	amod
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 know	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 know	advmod
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 look	advmod
8	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	11 look	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 look	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 look	aux
11	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 know	ccomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 saviour	case
13	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 saviour	det:predet
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 saviour	det
15	saviour	saviour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 look	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 educated	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 educated	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 educated	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 educated	aux:pass
20	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 educated	advmod
21	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 know	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 knew	cc
23	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 educated	conj
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 look	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 look	mark
26	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 knew	ccomp
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 lacking	mark
28	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 lacking	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 lacking	aux
30	lacking	lack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 look	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	past · do-support	the High King			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	look	should	King		for such saviour; exactly property	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for saviour=Theme
3	educate speech: other	past · passive		King	well property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	know	past				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	look	to-infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	lack	past · progressive	whatever			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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