Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 140

The king was not so pleased when he saw that it was a herd who was to marry his daughter, but he ordered that he should be put in a better dress; but his daughter spoke, and she said that he had a dress as fine as any that ever was in his castle; and thus it happened.

Who acts: king, hand, herd, daughter, that, it · What happens: not be, see, be, order, put, speak · To what, where: herd, king, better dress, dress, castle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, hand, herd, daughter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pleased	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 pleased	advmod
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 pleased	advmod
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 saw	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	advcl
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 herd	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 herd	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 herd	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 herd	det
14	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 marry	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 marry	cop
17	to	to	PART	_	18 marry	mark
18	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 herd	acl:relcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 daughter	nmod:poss
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 marry	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 ordered	punct
22	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 ordered	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 ordered	nsubj
24	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	conj
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 put	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 put	nsubj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 put	aux
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 put	aux:pass
29	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 ordered	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	33 dress	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 dress	det
32	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 dress	amod
33	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 put	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 spoke	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 spoke	cc
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 daughter	nmod:poss
37	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 spoke	nsubj
38	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 said	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 said	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 said	nsubj
42	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 spoke	advcl
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 had	mark
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 had	nsubj
45	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 fine	advcl
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 dress	det
47	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 had	obj
48	as	as	ADV	_	49 fine	advmod
49	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 said	ccomp
50	as	as	SCONJ	_	57 castle	mark
51	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	57 castle	det
52	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 castle	nsubj
53	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	57 castle	advmod
54	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 castle	cop
55	in	in	ADP	_	57 castle	case
56	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 castle	nmod:poss
57	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 fine	advcl
58	;	;	PUNCT	_	62 happened	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 happened	cc
60	thus	thus	ADV	_	62 happened	advmod
61	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 happened	nsubj
62	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 pleased	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	the king				pleased property	tree rules
2	see	past	king					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	hand	a herd				tree rules
4	is	past	a herd				marry property	tree rules
5	order	past	king					vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
6	put	should · passive		king	a better dress			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in dress=Destination
7	speak speech: other	past	king's daughter					vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	say speech: assert	past	daughter					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
9	have	past	king	a dress				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dress=Patient
10	is	past	that		king's castle	ever		tree rules
11	happen	past	it				thus property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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