Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 11
I'll be disgraced for ever this evening, when the king calls for his story-teller."
Who acts: king · What happens: disgrace, call · To what, where: I · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Story-teller At Fault. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 disgraced | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 disgraced | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 disgraced | aux:pass |
| 4 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 evening | case |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 evening | advmod |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 evening | det |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 disgraced | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 calls | punct |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 calls | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calls | nsubj |
| 13 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 evening | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 teller | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 teller | nmod:poss |
| 16 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 teller | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 story | punct |
| 18 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 calls | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgraced | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 disgraced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disgrace | future · passive | I | evening | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | call | present | the king | for king's story teller | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for teller=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: «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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