Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'toole and His Goose, sentence 48
When the king was as good as his word, Saint Kavin was pleased with him, and then it was that he made himself known to the king. "
Who acts: king, Saint Kavin, word · What happens: be, know, word
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 (king, Saint Kavin, word), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 good | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | cop |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 good | advmod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 word | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 11 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Kavin | compound |
| 12 | Kavin | Kavin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pleased | cop |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 good | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 made | cc |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 made | advmod |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 made | cop |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 made | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 made | nsubj |
| 24 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 good | conj |
| 25 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 made | obj |
| 26 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 made | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 king | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 known | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the king | as king's word; good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Saint Kavin | with king; pleased property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | word | then | make property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | participle | word not said here | to the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | word | king | nom word «communication 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: «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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