Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 116
"Stag of Redynvre, behold we are come to thee, an embassy from Arthur, for we have not heard of any animal older than thou.
Who acts: we · What happens: come, not hear · To what, where: we
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 (we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stag | punct |
| 2 | Stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Redynvre | case |
| 4 | Redynvre | Redynvre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Stag | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 come | discourse |
| 7 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux:pass |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Redynvre | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 thee | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 come | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 embassy | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 embassy | det |
| 14 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stag | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 Arthur | case |
| 16 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 embassy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 heard | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 heard | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 heard | advmod |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Stag | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 animal | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 animal | det |
| 25 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 heard | obl |
| 26 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 animal | amod |
| 27 | than | than | ADP | _ | 28 thou | case |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 older | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stag | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · passive | we | to thee | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not hear in a quote | present · perfect | we | of any animal | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of animal=Stimulus |
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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