Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 170

From first to last he told all that had befallen him; so long and loud laughed the king that he couldn't go to sleep at all.

Who acts: you, man, that · What happens: last, tell, befall, laugh, not go, sleep · To what, where: man, king, all · 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 (you, man, that), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 last	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 last	case
4	last	last	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 told	nsubj
6	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 last	ccomp
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 befallen	det:predet
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 befallen	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 befallen	aux
10	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 told	ccomp
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 befallen	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 long	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 last	advmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 laughed	cc
16	loud	loud	ADV	_	17 laughed	advmod
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 long	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 king	det
19	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 laughed	obj
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 go	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 laughed	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 sleep	mark
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 go	xcomp
27	at	at	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 sleep	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 last	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	last	imperative	you not said here			long property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past	man				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	befall	past · perfect	that	man			tree rules
4	laugh	past	you not said here	the king		loud property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme
5	not go	could	man				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	sleep	to-infinitive	man not said here		all		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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