Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XII, sentence 26

“Alas!” said the king, and he smote his hands together, and then he beat them on his head, and then he looked at them and at everything about, and he could not tell what anything was or where anything was, for his mind was clouded and his wits had gone astray.

Who acts: king, wits · What happens: say, smite, beat, look, not tell, cloud · To what, where: hands, Duv, anything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wits), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Alas	alas	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Alas	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smote	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smote	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 smote	nsubj
11	smote	smite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 smote	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	11 smote	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 beat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 beat	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 beat	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beat	nsubj
19	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beat	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 beat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 looked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 looked	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 looked	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	nsubj
28	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 looked	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 everything	cc
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 everything	case
33	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	30 them	conj
34	about	about	ADV	_	28 looked	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 tell	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 tell	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 tell	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 tell	aux
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 tell	advmod
40	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 looked	conj
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	53 clouded	obj
42	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 clouded	nsubj:pass
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 clouded	aux:pass
44	or	or	CCONJ	_	53 clouded	cc
45	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	53 clouded	advmod
46	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	53 clouded	nsubj:pass
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 clouded	aux:pass
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 clouded	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	53 clouded	mark
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 mind	nmod:poss
51	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 clouded	nsubj:pass
52	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 clouded	aux:pass
53	clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	40 tell	ccomp
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 gone	cc
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 wits	nmod:poss
56	wits	wit	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 gone	nsubj
57	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 gone	aux
58	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	53 clouded	conj
59	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 gone	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	smite	past	King	King's hands		together property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer
3	beat	past	King	Duv	then	on King's head	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Instrument on head=Patient
4	look	past	King		then	at Duv; about property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme
5	not tell speech: assert	could	King				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	cloud	past · passive		anything			tree rules
7	go	past · perfect	King's wits			astray property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	mind		King				nom mind «cognition 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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