Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 123

Twas the hour he was wont to hear a story, but send he might right and left, not a jot of tidings about the story-teller could he get.

Who acts: Twas, jot · What happens: be, hear, send, leave, get, jot · To what, where: story, tidings

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 (Twas, jot), 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	Twas	twa	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wont	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wont	nsubj
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wont	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wont	cop
6	wont	wont	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wont	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 send	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 send	cc
13	send	send	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 wont	parataxis
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 might	nsubj
15	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 send	ccomp
16	right	right	ADV	_	13 send	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 left	cc
18	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 send	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 jot	punct
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 jot	advmod
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 jot	det
22	jot	jot	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 get	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 tidings	case
24	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 jot	nmod
25	about	about	ADP	_	29 teller	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 teller	det
27	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 teller	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 story	punct
29	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tidings	nmod
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 get	aux
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 get	nsubj
32	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 left	ccomp
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wont	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Twas		wont property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	Twas not said here	a story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	send	infinitive			right property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	leave	past				tree rules
5	get	could	a jot of tidings about the story teller			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	jot			tidings about the story teller		nom jot «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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