Celtic Fairy Tales, Conall Yellowclaw, sentence 52

He told how it happened to him, and that he had to get the brown horse for the king of Erin, or that his sons were to be put to death. "

Who acts: necessity, it · What happens: tell, happen, have, get, put · To what, where: necessity, brown horse, sons · 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 (necessity, it), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 happened	advmod
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	nsubj
5	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	ccomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 happened	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 had	nsubj
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 had	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 horse	det
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 horse	amod
17	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 king	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 king	det
20	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 Erin	case
22	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 king	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 put	punct
24	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 put	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 put	mark
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 sons	nmod:poss
27	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 put	nsubj:pass
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 put	aux:pass
29	to	to	PART	_	31 put	mark
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 put	aux:pass
31	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 had	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 death	case
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	necessity				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past	it		necessity		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	necessity				tree rules
4	get	to-infinitive	necessity not said here	the brown horse		for the king of Erin	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent horse=Theme for king=Beneficiary
5	put	past · passive		necessity's sons		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal

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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