Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 136

So they went thither, and the eagle said, "Salmon of Llyn Llyw, I have come to thee with an embassy from Arthur to ask thee if thou knowest aught concerning Mabon, the son of Modron, who was taken away at three nights old from between his mother and the wall."

Who acts: wings, eagle, thou · What happens: go, say, come, ask, know, concern · To what, where: Salmon, thee, aught, Mabon, son · 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 (wings, eagle, thou), 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 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thither	thither	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 eagle	det
8	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Salmon	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 Salmon	punct
12	Salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 Llyn	case
14	Llyn	Llyn	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Salmon	nmod
15	Llyw	Llyw	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Llyn	flat
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 come	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	conj
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 thee	case
21	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 come	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	24 embassy	case
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 embassy	det
24	embassy	embassy	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 Arthur	case
26	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 embassy	nmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 ask	mark
28	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	19 come	parataxis
29	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	28 ask	obj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 knowest	mark
31	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	32 knowest	nsubj
32	knowest	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 ask	advcl
33	aught	aught	PRON	PronType=Ind	32 knowest	obj
34	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 aught	acl
35	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 concerning	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 son	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 son	det
38	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Mabon	appos
39	of	of	ADP	_	40 Modron	case
40	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 son	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 taken	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 taken	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 taken	aux:pass
44	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	38 son	acl
45	away	away	ADV	_	44 taken	advmod
46	at	at	ADP	_	48 nights	case
47	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 nights	nummod
48	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 old	obl:unmarked
49	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 taken	conj
50	from	from	ADP	_	53 mother	case
51	between	between	ADP	_	53 mother	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 mother	nmod:poss
53	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 old	obl
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 wall	cc
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 wall	det
56	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 mother	conj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
58	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	wings = wing			thither property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the eagle	Salmon of Llyn			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent salmon=Topic
3	come in a quote	present · perfect	the eagle = eagle		thee	with a embassy from Arthur	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask in a quote	to-infinitive		thee			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
5	know a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	thou	aught			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer aught=Stimulus
6	concern in a quote	gerund		Mabon			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mabon=Experiencer
7	take away in a quote	past · passive		the son of Modron		away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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