English Fairy Tales, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm., sentence 9

We learn from this that the original hero was Kempe or Champion Owain, the Welsh hero who flourished in the ninth century.

Who acts: We, original hero, Welsh hero · What happens: learn, be, flourish · To what, where: this, Kempe

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXXIII. the Laidly Worm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, original hero, Welsh hero), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 learn	nsubj
2	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 this	case
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 learn	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 Kempe	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hero	det
7	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hero	amod
8	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Kempe	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Kempe	cop
10	Kempe	Kempe	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 learn	obl
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 Champion	cc
12	Champion	Champion	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Kempe	conj
13	Owain	Owain	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Champion	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 hero	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 hero	det
16	Welsh	welsh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 hero	amod
17	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Kempe	appos
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 flourished	nsubj
19	flourished	flourish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 hero	acl:relcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 century	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 century	det
22	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 century	amod
23	century	century	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flourished	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 learn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	learn	present	We		this		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from this=Source
2	is a	past	the original hero	Kempe or Champion			tree rules
3	flourish	past	the Welsh hero			century	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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