Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 11

Arthur received him with great ceremony, and asked him to remain at the palace; but the youth replied that he came not to consume meat and drink, but to ask a boon of the king.

Who acts: Arthur, youth, four · What happens: receive, ask, remain, reply, come, not consume · To what, where: four, palace, meat, boon

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, youth, four), 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	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 ceremony	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ceremony	amod
6	ceremony	ceremony	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 received	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 asked	cc
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 remain	mark
12	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	xcomp
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 palace	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 palace	det
15	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 remain	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 replied	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 replied	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 youth	det
19	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 replied	nsubj
20	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	parataxis
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 replied	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 consume	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 consume	mark
26	consume	consume	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 came	xcomp
27	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 consume	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drink	cc
29	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 meat	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 ask	punct
31	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 ask	cc
32	to	to	PART	_	33 ask	mark
33	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 consume	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 boon	det
35	boon	boon	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ask	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 king	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 king	det
38	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 boon	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	Arthur	four			with great ceremony	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	Arthur not said here		four			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	remain not said to happen	to-infinitive	Arthur not said here			the palace		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at palace=Location
4	reply speech: assert	past	the youth					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	four					tree rules
6	not consume	to-infinitive	four not said here	meat and drink				vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Asset
7	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	four not said here	a boon of the king				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boon=Recipient

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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