Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 125
And there grew there a second wood, and this wood is the third.
Who acts: wood · What happens: grow, be · To what, where: second wood
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 (wood), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 grew | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | expl |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 grew | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wood | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 wood | amod |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grew | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 third | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 third | cc |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 wood | det |
| 11 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 third | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 third | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 third | det |
| 14 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 grew | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | a second wood | there; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wood=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | this wood | third property | 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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