Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 149

They did as they were told, but what happened was that they found the king's chief harper hanging where the lank grey beggarman should have been.

Who acts: Twas, chief harper, lank grey beggarman · What happens: do, tell, happen, be, find, hang · To what, where: Twas, chief harper · 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 (Twas, chief harper, lank grey beggarman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 told	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj:pass
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 told	aux:pass
6	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 happened	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 happened	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
10	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 did	parataxis
11	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 found	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 found	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 was	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 king	det
16	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 harper	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 king	case
18	chief	chief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 harper	amod
19	harper	harper	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 found	obj
20	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 harper	acl
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 been	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 beggarman	det
23	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beggarman	amod
24	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beggarman	amod
25	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 been	nsubj
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 been	aux
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 been	aux
28	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 hanging	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Twas = twa		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past · passive		Twas = twa	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	happen	past			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	be	past			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	find	past	Twas = twa	the king's chief harper	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harper=Topic
6	hang	gerund	the king's chief harper not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	be	should · perfect	the lank grey beggarman		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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