Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter VI, sentence 6

The High King found that his hands had washed themselves, and when later on he noticed that food had been placed before him he noticed also that it had come without the assistance of servile hands.

Who acts: High King, King, food · What happens: find, wash, notice, place, come, assist · To what, where: hands, food, servile hands · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter VI. 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, food), 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	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 washed	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hands	nmod:poss
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 washed	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 washed	aux
9	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 found	ccomp
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 washed	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 noticed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 noticed	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 later	advmod
14	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 noticed	advmod
15	on	on	SCONJ	_	17 noticed	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 noticed	nsubj
17	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 placed	mark
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placed	nsubj:pass
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 placed	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 placed	aux:pass
22	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 noticed	advcl
23	before	before	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 placed	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 noticed	nsubj
26	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 noticed	parataxis
27	also	also	ADV	_	26 noticed	advmod
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 come	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 come	nsubj
30	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 come	aux
31	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 noticed	ccomp
32	without	without	ADP	_	34 assistance	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 assistance	det
34	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 come	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 hands	case
36	servile	servile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 hands	amod
37	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 assistance	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the High King				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wash	past · perfect · passive		King's hands			vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary themselves=Patient
3	notice	past	King			late property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	place	past · perfect · passive		food	before King		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination
5	notice	past	King				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	come	past · perfect	food			without the assistance of servile hands	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	assist			servile hands			nom assistance «act transitive»: of=patient

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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