Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 3

Many indeed were the stories he knew, so that he had already reached a good old age without failing even for a single night in his task; and such was the skill he displayed that whatever cares of state or other annoyances might prey upon the monarch's mind, his story-teller was sure to send him to sleep.

Who acts: Many stories, Dannan, such skill, cares, story teller, state · What happens: be, know, reach, fail, display, prey · To what, where: Many stories, good old age, such skill, Dannan

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 (Many stories, Dannan, such skill, cares), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stories	amod
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	1 Many	advmod
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stories	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 stories	det
5	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 knew	nsubj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knew	nsubj
7	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reached	punct
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 reached	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 reached	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 reached	aux
13	already	already	ADV	_	14 reached	advmod
14	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 knew	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 age	det
16	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 age	amod
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 age	amod
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reached	obj
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	20 failing	mark
20	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 reached	advcl
21	even	even	ADV	_	25 night	advmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	25 night	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 night	det
24	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 night	amod
25	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 failing	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 task	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 task	nmod:poss
28	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 night	nmod
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 displayed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 displayed	cc
31	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 skill	amod
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 skill	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 skill	det
34	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 displayed	nsubj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 displayed	nsubj
36	displayed	display	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 knew	conj
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 prey	mark
38	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	39 cares	det
39	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 prey	nsubj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 state	case
41	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cares	nmod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	44 annoyances	cc
43	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 annoyances	amod
44	annoyances	annoyance	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 state	conj
45	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 prey	aux
46	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 displayed	advcl
47	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 mind	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 monarch	det
49	monarch	monarch	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 mind	nmod:poss
50	's	's	PART	_	49 monarch	case
51	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 prey	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 sure	punct
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 teller	nmod:poss
54	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 teller	compound
55	-	-	PUNCT	_	54 story	punct
56	teller	teller	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sure	nsubj
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 sure	cop
58	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 displayed	parataxis
59	to	to	PART	_	60 send	mark
60	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 sure	xcomp
61	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 send	obj
62	to	to	PART	_	63 sleep	mark
63	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	60 send	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Many stories			tree rules
2	know	past	the Many stories				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	reach	past · perfect	Dannan	a good old age			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme
4	fail	gerund	Dannan not said here		night		vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past		the such skill			tree rules
6	display	past	the such skill				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	prey	might	whatever cares of state or other annoyances			upon the monarch's mind	tree rules
8	is	past	Dannan's story teller			sure property	tree rules
9	send	to-infinitive	Dannan's story teller not said here	Dannan			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
10	sleep	to-infinitive	Dannan's story teller not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	task		Dannan				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
12	care		state or other annoyances				nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent
13	mind		the monarch				nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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