Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 103
Then Arthur rose up, and the warriors of the Islands of Britain with him, to seek for Eidoel; and they proceeded until they came before the castle of Glivi, where Eidoel was imprisoned.
Who acts: Arthur, things · What happens: rise up, seek, proceed, come, imprison · To what, where: warriors, castle, Eidoel
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 (Arthur, things), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 rose | advmod |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rose | nsubj |
| 3 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 rose | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 warriors | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 warriors | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warriors | det |
| 8 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rose | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Islands | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Islands | det |
| 11 | Islands | Island | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 warriors | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Britain | case |
| 13 | Britain | Britain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Islands | nmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 warriors | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seek | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rose | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Eidoel | case |
| 20 | Eidoel | Eidoel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 seek | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 proceeded | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 proceeded | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 proceeded | nsubj |
| 24 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rose | conj |
| 25 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 proceeded | advcl |
| 28 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 castle | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 castle | det |
| 30 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Glivi | case |
| 32 | Glivi | Glivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 castle | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 imprisoned | punct |
| 34 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 imprisoned | advmod |
| 35 | Eidoel | Eidoel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 imprisoned | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 imprisoned | aux:pass |
| 37 | imprisoned | imprison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Glivi | acl:relcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise up | past | Arthur | the warriors of the Islands of Britain with Britain | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | seek | to-infinitive | Arthur not said here | for Eidoel | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for eidoel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | things = thing | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | come | past | things = thing | the castle of Glivi | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before castle=Location | ||||
| 5 | imprison | past · passive | Eidoel | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: subject=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.
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