--- title: When the king saw this, he thought it hard the harpers weren't conte… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: When the king saw this, he thought it hard the harpers weren't content with murdering their music, but must needs murder each other. Who acts: king, harper, harpers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, harper, harpers), 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:pg7885:20:137 # text = When the king saw this, he thought it hard the harpers weren't content with murdering their music, but must needs murder each other. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 5 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 hard har VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 harpers harper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 content content ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 ccomp _ _ 16 with with SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 murdering murder VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 18 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 music music NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 needs need VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 murder murder NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 24 nmod _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 27 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the king | this | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | king | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **har** | past | harper | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | the harpers | | | | | content *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **murder** | gerund | the harpers *not said here* | sounds's music | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient | | 6 | **need** | must | the harpers *not said here* | murder each | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot murder=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/138/) - ↑ back to [The Story-teller At Fault](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/20/)