Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 38

Only once did she come again, when her sons were grown to manhood, and then she gave them gifts of healing by which they won the name of Meddygon Myddvai, the physicians of Myddvai.

Who acts: Geringer, sons · What happens: come, grow, give, win, gift, name · To what, where: sons, name, healing, Meddygon

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Geringer, sons), 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	Only	only	ADV	_	2 once	advmod
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 come	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	again	again	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grown	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 grown	advmod
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sons	nmod:poss
10	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 grown	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	aux:pass
12	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 come	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 manhood	case
14	manhood	manhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grown	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gave	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gave	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 gave	advmod
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	nsubj
19	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grown	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gave	obj
21	gifts	gift	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gave	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 healing	case
23	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gifts	nmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 won	obl
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 won	nsubj
27	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 healing	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 name	det
29	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 won	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 Meddygon	case
31	Meddygon	Meddygon	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 name	nmod
32	Myddvai	Myddvai	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Meddygon	flat
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 physicians	punct
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 physicians	det
35	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 gifts	conj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Myddvai	case
37	Myddvai	Myddvai	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 physicians	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past · do-support	Geringer		again	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grow	past · passive		Geringer's sons		to manhood result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: subject=Extent to manhood=Result
3	give	past	Geringer	sons = son	then		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient gift=Theme
4	win	past	sons = son	the name of Meddygon		by healing	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Eventuality
5	gift			healing			nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient
6	name			Meddygon			nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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