Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 131
And when I came there, I struck my talons into a salmon, thinking he would serve me as food for a long time.
Who acts: I, rock · What happens: come, strike, think, serve · To what, where: talons, salmon, me · 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 (I, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 struck | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 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 | 8 struck | advcl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 struck | nsubj |
| 8 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 talons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 struck | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 salmon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 salmon | det |
| 13 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 struck | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thinking | punct |
| 15 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 struck | advcl |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 serve | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 serve | aux |
| 18 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 thinking | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 serve | obj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 food | case |
| 21 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 serve | obl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 serve | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | I | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | I | my talons | into a salmon result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent talon=Patient into salmon=Result | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | serve | would | rock | me | time | as food | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent i=Duration as food=Attribute |
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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