Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 2
Like the other princes and chieftains of the island, he had a favourite story-teller, who held a large estate from his Majesty, on condition of telling him a new story every night of his life, before he went to sleep.
Who acts: Dannan, favourite story teller, condition · What happens: have, hold, tell, go · To what, where: favourite story teller, large estate, Majesty, new story, Dannan, sleep · 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 (Dannan, favourite story teller, condition), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 4 princes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 princes | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 princes | amod |
| 4 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 had | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 chieftains | cc |
| 6 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 princes | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 island | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 island | det |
| 9 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 chieftains | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 princes | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 teller | det |
| 14 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 teller | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 teller | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 17 | teller | teller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 teller | acl:relcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 estate | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 estate | amod |
| 23 | estate | estate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Majesty | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Majesty | Majesty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 estate | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 condition | punct |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 condition | case |
| 29 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 telling | mark |
| 31 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 condition | acl |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 telling | iobj |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 story | det |
| 34 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 story | amod |
| 35 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 telling | obj |
| 36 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 night | det |
| 37 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 telling | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 life | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 life | nmod:poss |
| 40 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 night | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 went | punct |
| 42 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 44 went | mark |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 went | nsubj |
| 44 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 telling | conj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 sleep | case |
| 46 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 went | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Dannan | a favourite story teller | like the other princes and chieftains of the island | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent teller=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | past | a favourite story teller | a large estate | Dannan's Majesty | on condition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent estate=Theme on condition=Location | ||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | gerund | condition not said here | a new story | Dannan | night | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 4 | go | past | Dannan | sleep | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location |
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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