Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 142
Then they returned and told Arthur, who, summoning his warriors, attacked the castle.
Who acts: followers, Arthur · What happens: return, tell, summon, attack · To what, where: warriors, castle · 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 (followers, Arthur), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 told | cc |
| 5 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 6 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 summoning | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoning | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 summoning | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 summoning | punct |
| 10 | summoning | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 told | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 summoning | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attacked | punct |
| 14 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 returned | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attacked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | followers = follower | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | followers = follower not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | summon | gerund | Arthur | Arthur's warriors | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | attack | past | followers = follower not said here | the castle | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Patient |
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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