Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 143

And whilst the fight was going on, Kay and Bedwyr, mounting on the shoulders of the fish, broke into the dungeon, and brought away with them Mabon, the son of Modron.

Who acts: fight · What happens: go on, mount, break, bring away · To what, where: Kay, shoulders, dungeon, Mabon

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 (fight), 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	_	21 broke	cc
2	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	6 going	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fight	det
4	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 broke	advcl
7	on	on	ADP	_	6 going	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Kay	punct
9	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Bedwyr	cc
11	Bedwyr	Bedwyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Kay	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mounting	punct
13	mounting	mount	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 going	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 shoulders	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shoulders	det
16	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 mounting	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 fish	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fish	det
19	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shoulders	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 dungeon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dungeon	det
24	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brought	cc
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 broke	conj
28	away	away	ADV	_	27 brought	advmod
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	obl
31	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 son	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 son	det
34	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Mabon	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Modron	case
36	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 son	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past · progressive	the fight	Kay and Bedwyr				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mount	gerund	the fight not said here			the shoulders of the fish		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Destination
3	break	past					into the dungeon result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into dungeon=Result
4	bring away	past			Mabon		with shoulders = shoulder; away property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mabon=Destination

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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