Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 171

And he told the story-teller never to trouble for fresh stories, but every night as long as he lived he listened again and he laughed afresh at the tale of the lank grey beggarman.

Who acts: man, lank grey beggarman · What happens: tell, not trouble, live, listen, laugh · To what, where: story teller, tale · 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 (man, lank grey beggarman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:1296): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 told	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teller	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 teller	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
7	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	iobj
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 trouble	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 trouble	mark
10	trouble	trouble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	xcomp
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 stories	case
12	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stories	amod
13	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trouble	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 listened	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 listened	cc
16	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	17 night	det
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 listened	obl:unmarked
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 lived	mark
19	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 as	fixed
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 lived	nsubj
22	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 listened	advcl
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 listened	nsubj
24	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
25	again	again	ADV	_	24 listened	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 laughed	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 laughed	nsubj
28	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 listened	conj
29	afresh	afresh	ADV	_	28 laughed	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 tale	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 tale	det
32	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laughed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 beggarman	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 beggarman	det
35	lank	lank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beggarman	amod
36	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 beggarman	amod
37	beggarman	beggarman	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tale	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	the story teller				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent teller=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not trouble not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here				for fresh stories	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	live	past	man					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	listen	past	man			again; night		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	past	man		the tale of the lank grey beggarman		afresh property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	tell		the lank grey beggarman					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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