Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 2

Well, sir, you must know, as you didn't hear it afore, that there was a king, called King O'Toole, who was a fine old king in the old ancient times, long ago; and it was he that owned the churches in the early days.

Who acts: you, king, heerd · What happens: know, not hear, be, call, own · To what, where: heerd, king, fine old king, churches · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, King O'toole and His Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, king, heerd), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 know	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sir	punct
3	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Well	vocative
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 know	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 know	aux
7	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 hear	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 hear	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 know	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	afore	afore	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 king	det
21	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 was	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 called	punct
23	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 king	acl
24	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 called	xcomp
25	O'Toole	O'Toole	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 King	flat
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 king	punct
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 king	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 king	cop
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 king	det
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 king	amod
31	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 king	amod
32	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 King	appos
33	in	in	ADP	_	37 times	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 times	det
35	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 times	amod
36	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 times	amod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 ago	obl:unmarked
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ago	punct
39	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	40 ago	advmod
40	ago	ago	ADV	_	32 king	advmod
41	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 owned	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 owned	cc
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 he	nsubj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 he	cop
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 owned	nsubj
46	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 owned	nsubj
47	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 know	conj
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 churches	det
49	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 owned	obj
50	in	in	ADP	_	53 days	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 days	det
52	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 days	amod
53	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 owned	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	must	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	not hear	past · do-support	you	heerd			afore property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3	be	past	a king		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	call	participle		a king not said here				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	King	a fine old king			ago property	tree rules
6	is a	past	heerd	king				tree rules
7	own	past	king	the churches		day		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot church=Theme

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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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