Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 120

On the fifth day no more strange princes wanted to fight; and all the sons of kings in Erin said they would not fight with a man of their own land, that the strangers had had their chance, and, as no others came to claim the woman, she belonged of right to the son of the king of Emania.

Who acts: strange princes, sons, princes, strangers, woman · What happens: want, fight, say, not fight, have, come · To what, where: chance, woman · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strange princes, sons, princes, strangers), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 day	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	fifth	fifth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obl
5	no	no	ADV	_	7 strange	advmod
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 strange	advmod
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 princes	amod
8	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 fight	mark
11	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wanted	xcomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sons	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sons	det
16	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 said	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 kings	case
18	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sons	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Erin	case
20	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 sons	nmod
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wanted	conj
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 fight	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 fight	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 fight	advmod
25	fight	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 said	ccomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 man	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fight	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 land	case
30	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 land	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 land	amod
32	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 had	punct
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 had	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 strangers	det
36	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 had	nsubj
37	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 had	aux
38	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 fight	parataxis
39	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 chance	nmod:poss
40	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 had	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 came	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 came	cc
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 and	punct
44	as	as	ADP	_	46 others	case
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 others	det
46	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 came	obl
47	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wanted	parataxis
48	to	to	PART	_	49 claim	mark
49	claim	claim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 came	advcl
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 woman	det
51	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 claim	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 belonged	punct
53	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 belonged	nsubj
54	belonged	belong	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 came	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 right	case
56	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 belonged	obl
57	to	to	ADP	_	59 son	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 son	det
59	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 right	nmod
60	of	of	ADP	_	62 king	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 king	det
62	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 son	nmod
63	of	of	ADP	_	64 Emania	case
64	Emania	Emania	PROPN	Number=Sing	62 king	nmod
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	strange princes		day		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	fight not said to happen	to-infinitive	strange princes not said here				vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	all sons of kings in Erin				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not fight	would	princes = prince			with a man of princes's own land	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with man=Co-Agent
5	have	past · perfect	the strangers	princes's chance			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient
6	come	past				as no others	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	claim speech: other	to-infinitive		the woman			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent woman=Topic
8	belong	past	woman			of right to the son of the king of Emania	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
9	chance		princes = prince				nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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