Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 147
Arthur and his hosts, and his horses, and his dogs followed hard after him.
Who acts: Arthur · What happens: follow
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 (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 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 hosts | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hosts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arthur | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 horses | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 horses | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 horses | nmod:poss |
| 8 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Arthur | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 followed | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 followed | advmod |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Arthur and Arthur's hosts and Arthur's horses | after dog | hard property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent after he=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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