Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 139

So Kay and Gwrhyr went upon his shoulders, and they proceeded till they came to the wall of the prison, and they heard a great wailing and lamenting from the dungeon.

Who acts: Kay, shoulders · What happens: go, proceed, come, hear, lament · To what, where: shoulders, wall, great wailing, dungeon

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 (Kay, shoulders), 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	_	5 went	advmod
2	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Gwrhyr	cc
4	Gwrhyr	Gwrhyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kay	conj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 shoulders	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoulders	nmod:poss
8	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proceeded	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 proceeded	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 proceeded	nsubj
12	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	15 came	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 proceeded	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 wall	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 prison	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prison	det
21	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wall	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 heard	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 heard	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 heard	nsubj
25	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wailing	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wailing	amod
28	wailing	wailing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heard	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 lamenting	cc
30	lamenting	lament	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 wailing	conj
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 dungeon	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dungeon	det
33	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lamenting	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past	Kay and Gwrhyr		Kay's shoulders	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon shoulder=Location
2	proceed	past	shoulders = shoulder			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	come	past	shoulders = shoulder		the wall of the prison	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location
4	hear	past	shoulders = shoulder	a great wailing		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wailing=Stimulus
5	lament	gerund	shoulders = shoulder not said here		the dungeon	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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