Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 74

Nor had the priest any better knowledge than he; but when Guleesh asked him, he wrote three or four letters to the king of France, and gave them to buyers and sellers of wares, who used to be going from place to place across the sea; but they all went astray, and never a one came to the king's hand.

Who acts: Nor, Guleesh, wares, letters, one · What happens: have, ask, write, give, use, go · To what, where: priest, Nor, three letters, king, letters, place

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, Guleesh, wares, letters), 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	Nor	Nor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 priest	det
4	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	any	any	ADV	_	6 better	advmod
6	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 had	advmod
7	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 better	obl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 he	case
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 knowledge	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 wrote	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 wrote	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 asked	advmod
13	Guleesh	Guleesh	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 asked	nsubj
14	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	advcl
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 asked	iobj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 asked	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wrote	nsubj
18	wrote	write	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 letters	nummod
20	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 four	cc
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 three	conj
22	letters	letter	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wrote	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 king	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 king	det
25	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wrote	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 France	case
27	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 king	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 gave	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gave	cc
30	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 wrote	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gave	iobj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 buyers	case
33	buyers	buyer	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 gave	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 sellers	cc
35	sellers	seller	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 buyers	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 wares	case
37	wares	ware	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sellers	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 used	punct
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 used	nsubj
40	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 wares	acl:relcl
41	to	to	PART	_	43 going	mark
42	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	43 going	aux
43	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 used	advcl
44	from	from	ADP	_	45 place	case
45	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 going	obl
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 place	case
47	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 place	nmod
48	across	across	ADP	_	50 sea	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 sea	det
50	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 going	obl
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 went	punct
52	but	but	CCONJ	_	55 went	cc
53	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 went	nsubj
54	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	55 went	advmod
55	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
56	astray	astray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 went	xcomp
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 came	punct
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 came	cc
59	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	61 one	advmod
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 one	det
61	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	62 came	nsubj
62	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 went	conj
63	to	to	ADP	_	67 hand	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	65 king	det
65	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 hand	nmod:poss
66	's	's	PART	_	65 king	case
67	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 came	obl
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Nor	the priest			well property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	Guleesh		Nor			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	write	past	Guleesh	three letters	the king of France			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent letter=Topic to king=Recipient
4	give	past	Guleesh not said here		letters = letter		to buyers and sellers of wares	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Theme to buyer=Recipient
5	use	past	wares					vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go	to-infinitive · progressive	wares not said here			place to place	across the sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location across sea=Destination
7	go	past	letters = letter				astray property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	come	past	a one			the king's hand		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to hand=Initial_Location

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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