Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 101

Now, when they told Arthur how they had sped, Arthur said, "Which of these marvels will it be best for us to seek first?"

Who acts: things, Arthur, us · What happens: tell, speed, say, be, seek · To what, where: Arthur · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (things, Arthur, us), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 said	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 told	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
6	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 told	iobj
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 sped	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sped	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sped	aux
10	sped	speed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 told	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
12	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 best	punct
16	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 best	nsubj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 marvels	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 marvels	det
19	marvels	marvel	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 best	obl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 best	aux
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 best	expl
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 best	cop
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 said	ccomp
24	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 seek	mark
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 seek	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 seek	mark
27	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 best	csubj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 seek	advmod
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	things = thing	Arthur			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent arthur=Recipient clause=Topic
2	speed	past · perfect	things = thing				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: ask	past	Arthur		now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	future				of this marvels; good property	tree rules
5	seek in a quote	to-infinitive	us			first property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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