Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 169
It's true enough he now had a story fit for a king.
Who acts: mind, man · What happens: be, have · To what, where: story fit
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 (mind, man), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 3 true | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 had | advmod |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | parataxis |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fit | det |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fit | compound |
| 10 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 king | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fit | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mind | enough, true property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man | a story fit | now | for a king | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=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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