Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 76

The boy feared greatly at last, lest the king should really hear where his daughter was, and take her back from himself, and he besought the priest to write no more, but to leave the matter to God.

Who acts: boy, king, daughter, Guleesh · What happens: fear, hear, be, take, beseech, write · To what, where: last, back, priest, more, matter, God · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (boy, king, daughter, Guleesh), 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feared	nsubj
3	feared	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	3 feared	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 last	case
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feared	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hear	punct
8	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	13 hear	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hear	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 hear	advmod
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	parataxis
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 was	advmod
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 was	nsubj
17	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 take	cc
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hear	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 take	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 besought	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 besought	nsubj
28	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feared	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 priest	det
30	priest	priest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 besought	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 write	mark
32	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 besought	advcl
33	no	no	ADV	_	34 more	advmod
34	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	32 write	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 leave	punct
36	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 leave	cc
37	to	to	PART	_	38 leave	mark
38	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 feared	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 matter	det
40	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 leave	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	42 God	case
42	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 leave	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fear	past	the boy			last	greatly property	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hear	should	the king					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	be	past	Guleesh's daughter					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	infinitive	the king not said here	priest's back			from Guleesh	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent back=Theme from himself=Initial_Location
5	beseech	past	Guleesh	the priest				tree rules
6	write	to-infinitive	Guleesh not said here	more				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Theme
7	leave	to-infinitive	the boy not said here	the matter	God			vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent matter=Theme to god=Recipient

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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