Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 145

And the dogs were let loose upon him from all sides.

What happens: let · To what, where: dogs

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: 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	_	5 let	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dogs	det
3	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 let	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 let	aux:pass
5	let	let	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 let	xcomp
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 loose	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 sides	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sides	det
11	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loose	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past · passive		the dogs				loose property	vn give-13.1-1 «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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