Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 126
My wings, are they not withered stumps?
Who acts: wings · What happens: not be
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 (wings), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 withered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wings | punct |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 withered | cop |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 withered | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 withered | advmod |
| 7 | withered | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | stumps | stump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 withered | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 withered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | My wings | wither 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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