Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 129

When they came to the eagle, Gwrhyr asked it the same question; but it replied, "I have been here for a great space of time, and when I first came hither there was a rock here, from the top of which I pecked at the stars every evening, and now it is not so much as a span high.

Who acts: animals, Gwrhyr, eagle, rock · What happens: come, ask, reply, be, peck, not be · To what, where: same question, eagle, top · 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 (animals, Gwrhyr, eagle, rock), 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	3 came	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	advcl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 eagle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
8	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	obj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 question	det
12	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 question	amod
13	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 replied	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 replied	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 replied	nsubj
17	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 here	punct
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 here	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 here	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 here	cop
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 replied	parataxis
24	for	for	ADP	_	27 space	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 space	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 space	amod
27	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 here	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 time	case
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 space	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 came	cc
32	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 came	advmod
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
34	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	35 came	advmod
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	conj
36	hither	hither	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	38 was	expl
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 came	advcl
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 rock	det
40	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	38 was	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 top	punct
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 top	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 top	det
45	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 which	case
47	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 pecked	obl
48	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	49 pecked	nsubj
49	pecked	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 top	acl:relcl
50	at	at	ADP	_	52 stars	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 stars	det
52	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 pecked	obl
53	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	54 evening	det
54	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 pecked	obl:unmarked
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	62 much	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 much	cc
57	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	62 much	advmod
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 much	nsubj
59	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	62 much	cop
60	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	62 much	advmod
61	so	so	ADV	_	62 much	advmod
62	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asked	ccomp
63	as	as	ADP	_	65 span	case
64	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 span	det
65	span	span	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 much	nmod
66	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 span	amod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	animals = animal					to the eagle	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to eagle=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	Gwrhyr	the same question	eagle				tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	eagle						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is in a quote	present · perfect	Gwrhyr					for a great space of time; here property	tree rules
5	come in a quote	past	Gwrhyr					first, hither property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	be in a quote	past	a rock			the top; here; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	peck in a quote	past	Gwrhyr				evening	of the top; at the stars	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at star=Patient
8	not is in a quote	present	eagle				now	as a span; much 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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