Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 112

These went forward until they came to the Ousel of Cilgwri, and Gwrhyr adjured her for the sake of Heaven, saying, "Tell me if thou knowest aught of Mabon, the son of Modron, who was taken when three nights old from between his mother and the wall."

Who acts: These, lord, Gwrhyr, thou · What happens: go, come, adjure, say, tell, know · To what, where: Ousel, Cilgwri, Gwrhyr, aught, son · 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 (These, lord, Gwrhyr, thou), 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	These	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 went	advmod
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Ousel	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ousel	det
9	Ousel	Ousel	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 Cilgwri	case
11	Cilgwri	Cilgwri	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Ousel	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 adjured	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 adjured	cc
14	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 adjured	nsubj
15	adjured	adjure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 adjured	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 sake	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 sake	det
19	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 adjured	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Heaven	case
21	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 sake	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 saying	punct
23	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 adjured	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Tell	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Tell	punct
26	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 saying	ccomp
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 Tell	iobj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 knowest	mark
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 knowest	nsubj
30	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Tell	ccomp
31	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	30 knowest	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 Mabon	case
33	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 aught	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 son	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 son	det
36	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 Mabon	appos
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 Modron	case
38	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 son	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 taken	punct
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 taken	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 taken	aux:pass
42	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 son	acl
43	when	when	SCONJ	_	46 old	mark
44	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	45 nights	nummod
45	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 old	obl:unmarked
46	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 taken	ccomp
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 mother	case
48	between	between	ADP	_	50 mother	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 mother	nmod:poss
50	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 old	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 wall	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 wall	det
53	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 mother	conj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 Tell	punct
55	"	"	PUNCT	_	26 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	These				forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	lord			the Ousel of Cilgwri		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ousel=Initial_Location
3	adjure	past	Gwrhyr	Cilgwri			for the sake of Heaven	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	gerund	Gwrhyr not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive			Gwrhyr			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	aught				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus
7	take in a quote	past · passive		the son of Modron				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Destination

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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