Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 10

When he went to lie down he told his wife the thing the king had set before him.

Who acts: king · What happens: go, lie down, tell, set · To what, where: thing, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Conall Yellowclaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 told	advcl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 lie	mark
5	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 went	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 lie	compound:prt
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wife	nmod:poss
10	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thing	det
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	obj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 king	det
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 set	aux
16	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 thing	acl:relcl
17	before	before	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 set	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	go	past	king				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	lie down	to-infinitive	king not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	king	the thing	king's wife		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient thing=Topic
4	set	past · perfect	the king	the thing not said here		before Conall	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme before he=Destination

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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