Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 34

The king, who was too far off to hear what they were saying, asked what did the stranger want.

Who acts: king, others, stranger · What happens: be, say, ask, want · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, others, stranger), 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	16 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 hear	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 far	advmod
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 off	advmod
8	off	off	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hear	mark
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 king	parataxis
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 saying	obj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 saying	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 saying	aux
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 hear	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 king	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 want	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 want	aux
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stranger	det
20	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 want	nsubj
21	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 asked	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king	hear, off property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · progressive	others = other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
3	ask speech: ask	past	the king		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	want	past · do-support	the stranger		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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