Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 9
At nightfall the king came home, and it was told him that Silver-tree, his wife, was very ill.
Who acts: king, Silver tree · What happens: come, tell, be · To what, where: nightfall, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Silver tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:833): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 king | det |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | expl |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 came | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 ill | mark |
| 14 | Silver | Silver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Silver | punct |
| 16 | tree | tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 ill | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tree | appos |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 ill | cop |
| 22 | very | very | ADV | _ | 23 ill | advmod |
| 23 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 told | csubj:pass |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the king | nightfall | home property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at nightfall=Location | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | the king not said here | nightfall | king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is | past | Silver tree | ill property | 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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). Tree: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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