Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 121

So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd, to inquire of him concerning Mabon.

Who acts: animals · What happens: proceed, be, inquire, concern · To what, where: Owl

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 (animals), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 proceeded	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 proceeded	nsubj
3	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 proceeded	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 Owl	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Owl	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Owl	det
10	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 place	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Cwm	case
12	Cwm	Cwm	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Owl	nmod
13	Cawlwyd	Cawlwyd	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Owl	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquire	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 inquire	mark
16	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 proceeded	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 inquire	obl
19	concerning	concern	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 Mabon	case
20	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 inquire	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 proceeded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	proceed	past	animals = animal		to the place	vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the Owl	of Cwm	tree rules
3	inquire speech: other	to-infinitive	animals = animal not said here		of Cwm; concern Mabon	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of he=Recipient
4	concern	gerund				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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