Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 123
When first I came hither, the wide valley you see was a wooded glen.
Who acts: I, you, wide valley · What happens: come, see, wood, be · To what, where: wide valley, wooded glen
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 (I, you, wide valley), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 first | advmod |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glen | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 valley | det |
| 8 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 valley | amod |
| 9 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glen | nsubj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 see | nsubj |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 valley | acl:relcl |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 glen | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 glen | det |
| 14 | wooded | wood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 glen | amod |
| 15 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | first, hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | present | you | the wide valley not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valley=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wood | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | the wide valley | a wooded glen | 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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