Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 148
But ever and awhile the boar made a stand, and many a champion of Arthur's did he slay.
Who acts: boar, Arthur · What happens: make, slay · To what, where: stand
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 (boar, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 made | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 4 | awhile | awhile | ADV | _ | 7 made | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 boar | det |
| 6 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stand | det |
| 9 | stand | stand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 champion | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 champion | cc |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 champion | amod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 champion | det |
| 14 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | parataxis |
| 15 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 slay | mark |
| 16 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 slay | nsubj |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Arthur | case |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 slay | aux |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 slay | nsubj |
| 20 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 champion | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the boar | a stand | ever | awhile property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product | ||
| 2 | slay | past · do-support | Arthur | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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