Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 17

Conall told the miller that his own children and the children of his king had fallen out, and that his children had killed the king's son, and there was nothing that would please the king but that he should get the brown horse of the king of Lochlann.

Who acts: Conall, own children, nothing, king · What happens: tell, fall out, kill, be, please, get · To what, where: miller, children, king, brown horse · 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 (Conall, own children, nothing, 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	Conall	Conall	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 miller	det
4	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fallen	mark
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 children	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 children	amod
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 fallen	nsubj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 children	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 children	det
11	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 children	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 king	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 king	nmod:poss
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 children	nmod
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fallen	aux
16	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 told	ccomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 fallen	compound:prt
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 killed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 killed	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 killed	mark
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 children	nmod:poss
22	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 killed	nsubj:pass
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 killed	aux
24	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 told	ccomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 son	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 king	case
28	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 killed	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 was	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 was	cc
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 was	nsubj
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 please	nsubj
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 please	aux
36	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 nothing	acl:relcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 king	det
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 please	obj
39	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 get	cc
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	43 get	mark
41	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 get	nsubj
42	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 get	aux
43	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 please	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 horse	det
45	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 horse	amod
46	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 get	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	49 king	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 king	det
49	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 horse	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 Lochlann	case
51	Lochlann	Lochlann	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 king	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Conall		the miller		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent miller=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fall out	past · perfect	Conall's own children and the children of Conall's king				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	kill	past · perfect · passive		Conall's children			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=Result
4	be	past	nothing			there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	please	would		the king			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer
6	get	should	king	the brown horse of the king of Lochlann			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horse=Stimulus

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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