Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 83

Then all the kings' sons were uneasy, and anxious to know who was she that lost the shoe; and they began to travel all over Erin to know could they find her.

Who acts: sons, shoes · What happens: be, know, begin, travel, find · To what, where: Erin, lady · 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 (sons, shoes), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 uneasy	advmod
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 kings	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kings	det
4	kings	king	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sons	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 kings	case
6	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 uneasy	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 uneasy	cop
8	uneasy	uneasy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anxious	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 anxious	cc
11	anxious	anxious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 uneasy	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 know	mark
13	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 anxious	csubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lost	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 lost	cop
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 lost	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 lost	nsubj
18	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 know	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shoe	det
20	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lost	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 uneasy	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 travel	mark
26	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	all	all	ADV	_	26 travel	advmod
28	over	over	ADP	_	29 Erin	case
29	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 travel	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 know	mark
31	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 travel	advcl
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 find	aux
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	nsubj
34	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 know	ccomp
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 find	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 uneasy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	all kings's sons			then	uneasy property	tree rules
2	be		all kings's sons not said here					tree rules
3	know	to-infinitive						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	is	past					lose property	tree rules
5	begin	past	shoes = shoe					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	travel	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here		Erin		all property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over erin=Trajectory
7	know	to-infinitive	shoes = shoe not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
8	find	could	shoes = shoe	lady				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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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