Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire, sentence 4

On eleven of the spikes are the heads of kings' sons who came seeking my daughter in marriage, and all of them went away to get the knowledge I wanted.

Who acts: spikes, sons, all, I · What happens: be, come, seek, go away, get, want · To what, where: daughter, marriage, knowledge

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shee an Gannon and the Gruagach Gaire. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spikes, sons, all, I), 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 eleven	case
2	eleven	eleven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	8 heads	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 spikes	det
5	spikes	spike	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heads	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heads	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 heads	det
8	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eleven	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 sons	case
10	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sons	nmod:poss
11	'	's	PART	_	10 kings	case
12	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heads	nmod
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sons	acl:relcl
15	seeking	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 came	xcomp
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 daughter	nmod:poss
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeking	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 marriage	case
19	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 seeking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 went	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 went	cc
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 went	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 all	nmod
25	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 came	conj
26	away	away	ADV	_	25 went	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 went	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 knowledge	det
30	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obj
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 wanted	nsubj
32	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 knowledge	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eleven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the spikes			of the heads; of kings's sons	tree rules
2	come	past	kings's sons				tree rules
3	seek	gerund	kings's sons not said here	my daughter	marriage		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme in marriage=Location
4	go away	past	all			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	to-infinitive	all not said here	the knowledge			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer knowledge=Stimulus
6	want	past	I	the knowledge not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot knowledge=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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