Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XX, sentence 16

She told the servant that, and the servant told it to the king.

Who acts: Mongan, that, servant · What happens: tell, servant · To what, where: whispering, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XX. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mongan, that, servant), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 servant	det
4	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 servant	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servant	det
9	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	obj
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Mongan			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient
2	servant		that			tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	the servant	whispering	the king	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to king=Recipient

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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