Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 32
The servants looked amongst the horses, and they did not find anything wrong; and they returned and they told this to the king, and the king said to them that if nothing was wrong they should go to their places of rest.
Who acts: servants, king, nothing · What happens: look, not find, return, tell, say, be · To what, where: anything, this, king, servants, places · 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 (servants, king, nothing), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | nsubj |
| 3 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 6 horses | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 horses | det |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 looked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 find | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 find | advmod |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 looked | conj |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 find | obj |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 anything | amod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 returned | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 returned | nsubj |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 returned | conj |
| 22 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 told | 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 | 21 told | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 said | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 king | det |
| 29 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 said | nsubj |
| 30 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 looked | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 said | obl |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 go | mark |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 wrong | mark |
| 35 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 37 wrong | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wrong | cop |
| 37 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 go | advcl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 go | nsubj |
| 39 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 go | aux |
| 40 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 said | ccomp |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 places | case |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 places | nmod:poss |
| 43 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 go | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 rest | case |
| 45 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 places | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | the servants | amongst the horses | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent amongst horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not find | past · do-support | servants = servant | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | return | past | servants = servant | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | servants = servant | this | the king | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent this=Topic to king=Recipient | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the king | servants = servant | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to they=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | nothing | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | should | servants = servant | servants's places of rest | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=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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