Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 137
And the salmon answered, "As much as I know I will tell thee.
Who acts: salmon · What happens: answer, know, tell · To what, where: thee · 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 (salmon), 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 | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 salmon | det |
| 3 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 much | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 much | punct |
| 7 | As | as | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 know | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | advcl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 tell | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 tell | aux |
| 14 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 much | conj |
| 15 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 tell | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the salmon | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | the salmon = salmon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | the salmon = salmon | thee | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thou=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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