Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 118

The stag said, "When first I came hither there was a plain all around me, without any trees save one oak sapling, which grew up to be an oak with an hundred branches.

Who acts: stag, trees, one oak sapling · What happens: say, come, be, save, grow up · To what, where: one oak sapling, oak · 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 (stag, trees, one oak sapling), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 first	advmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 came	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
10	hither	hither	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 me	det
14	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 me	amod
15	all	all	ADV	_	17 me	advmod
16	around	around	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 was	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 save	punct
19	without	without	SCONJ	_	22 save	mark
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 trees	det
21	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 save	nsubj
22	save	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 was	parataxis
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sapling	nummod
24	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sapling	compound
25	sapling	sapling	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 save	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 grew	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 grew	nsubj
28	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 sapling	acl:relcl
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 grew	compound:prt
30	to	to	PART	_	33 oak	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 oak	cop
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 oak	det
33	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grew	advcl
34	with	with	ADP	_	37 branches	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 branches	det
36	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 branches	nummod
37	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 oak	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the stag				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	past	the stag = stag			first, hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	be in a quote	past	the stag = stag not said here		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	save in a quote	present	any trees	one oak sapling			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sapling=Theme
5	grow up in a quote	past	one oak sapling				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a in a quote	to-infinitive	one oak sapling not said here	a oak		with a hundred branches	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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