Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story-teller At Fault, sentence 6

He found no difficulty in "there was once a king who had three sons" or "one day the king of all Ireland," but further than that he could not get.

Who acts: teller, king · What happens: find, have, not get · To what, where: difficulty, three sons · 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 (teller, king), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 difficulty	det
4	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 was	mark
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 was	punct
7	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	8 was	expl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 difficulty	acl:relcl
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 was	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 once	nsubj
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 king	acl:relcl
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 sons	nummod
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 sons	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 day	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 day	nummod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sons	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 king	det
22	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	appos
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 Ireland	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 Ireland	det
25	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 king	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 king	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
28	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 further	cc
29	further	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	20 day	advmod
30	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 get	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 get	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 get	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 get	advmod
35	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 further	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	find	past	teller	no difficulty	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic
2	have in a quote	past	a king	three sons or one day	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	not get	could	teller		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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