Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 13
So Kilhuch craved of him the hand of Olwen, the daughter of Yspathaden Penkawr, and also asked the favour and aid of all Arthur's court.
Who acts: Kilhuch · What happens: crave, ask · To what, where: hand, favour
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 (Kilhuch), 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 craved | advmod |
| 2 | Kilhuch | Kilhuch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 craved | nsubj |
| 3 | craved | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 craved | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 craved | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Olwen | case |
| 9 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 daughter | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 daughter | det |
| 12 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Olwen | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Yspathaden | case |
| 14 | Yspathaden | Yspathaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 daughter | nmod |
| 15 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Yspathaden | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asked | cc |
| 18 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 asked | advmod |
| 19 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 craved | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 favour | det |
| 21 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asked | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 aid | cc |
| 23 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 favour | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 court | case |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 Arthur | det |
| 26 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 court | nmod:poss |
| 27 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 26 Arthur | case |
| 28 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 aid | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 craved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crave | past | Kilhuch | the hand of Olwen | of Arthur | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Kilhuch not said here | the favour and aid of all Arthur's court | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient |
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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