Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 97

The king was going to give her to him three years ago, when she was only fifteen, but she said she was too young, and requested him to leave her as she was yet.

Who acts: king, Musha · What happens: go, give, be, say, request, leave · To what, where: Musha, fifteen, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Musha), 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	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	xcomp
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	iobj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 give	obl
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ago	obl:unmarked
12	ago	ago	ADV	_	6 give	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 fifteen	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 fifteen	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 fifteen	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 fifteen	cop
17	only	only	ADV	_	18 fifteen	advmod
18	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 going	parataxis
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
21	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	parataxis
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 young	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 young	cop
25	too	too	ADV	_	26 young	advmod
26	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 said	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 requested	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 requested	cc
29	requested	request	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 requested	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 leave	mark
32	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 requested	xcomp
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 leave	obj
34	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 yet	mark
35	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 yet	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 yet	cop
37	yet	yet	ADV	_	32 leave	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the king				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give	to-infinitive	the king not said here		Musha	to king; ago property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to he=Recipient
3	is a	past	Musha	fifteen			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	Musha				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	Musha			young property	tree rules
6	request	past	Musha not said here	king			vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	leave	to-infinitive	Musha not said here	Musha			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
8	is	past	Musha			yet property	tree rules

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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