Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 105
Said Arthur, "Not to injure thee came I hither, but to seek for the prisoner that is with thee."
Who acts: thee, that · What happens: not injure, come, seek, be · 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 (thee, that), 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 | Said | Said | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 injure | vocative |
| 2 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Said | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Said | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 injure | punct |
| 5 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 injure | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 injure | mark |
| 7 | injure | injure | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 injure | ccomp |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hither | nsubj |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 9 came | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seek | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 seek | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 seek | mark |
| 15 | seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 injure | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 prisoner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 prisoner | det |
| 18 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seek | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 thee | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 thee | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 prisoner | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 injure | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 injure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not injure in a quote | to-infinitive | Said vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in a quote | past | thee | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek in a quote | to-infinitive | for the prisoner | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for prisoner=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | that | with thee | tree rules |
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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