Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 137

When the king saw this, he thought it hard the harpers weren't content with murdering their music, but must needs murder each other.

Who acts: king, harper, harpers · What happens: see, think, har, not be, murder, need · To what, where: this, music, murder · 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, harper, harpers), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	advcl
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 saw	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hard	nsubj
10	hard	har	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 thought	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 harpers	det
12	harpers	harper	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 content	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 content	cop
14	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 content	advmod
15	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hard	ccomp
16	with	with	SCONJ	_	17 murdering	mark
17	murdering	murder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 content	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 music	nmod:poss
19	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 murdering	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 needs	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 needs	cc
22	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 needs	aux
23	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 content	conj
24	murder	murder	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 needs	obj
25	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 murder	nmod
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 each	fixed
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the king	this		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	think speech: other	past	king			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	har	past	harper			tree rules
4	not is	past	the harpers		content property	tree rules
5	murder	gerund	the harpers not said here	sounds's music		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient
6	need	must	the harpers not said here	murder each		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot murder=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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