--- title: They told the truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They told the truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted from that slender-handed, gold-haired, thin-lipped, blithe enchantress, and he required them to discover some means whereby he might retain his wife and his crown. Who acts: poets, king, some. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by Ja --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/30/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/) / 30 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter IV, sentence 30 They told the truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted from that slender-handed, gold-haired, thin-lipped, blithe enchantress, and he required them to discover some means whereby he might retain his wife and his crown. **Who acts:** poets, king, some · **What happens:** tell, not bear, part, hand, lip, require · **To what, where:** truth, king, that, blithe enchantress, poets, wife · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter IV. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poets, king, some), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:65:30 # text = They told the truth to the king, but he could not bear to be parted from that slender-handed, gold-haired, thin-lipped, blithe enchantress, and he required them to discover some means whereby he might retain his wife and his crown. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 truth truth NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 15 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 parted part VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ _ 17 from from SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 18 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 19 slender slender ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 handed hand VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 lipped lip VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 blithe blithe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 enchantress enchantress NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 required require VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 discover discover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 41 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 ccomp _ _ 42 whereby whereby ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 45 aux _ _ 45 retain retain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 ccomp _ _ 46 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 49 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | poets *= poet* | the truth | the king | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Topic to king=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **bear** | could | king | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **part** | to-infinitive · passive | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V» | | 4 | **hand** | participle · passive | | that | | | | | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **lip** | participle | | blithe enchantress | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **require** | past | king | poets *= poet* | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **discover** | to-infinitive | king *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **mean** | present | some | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **retain** | might | king | king's wife and king's crown | | | | whereby *property* | tree rules | | 10 | **crown** | | king | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/31/) - ↑ back to [Chapter IV](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/65/)