Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 149
Throughout all Wales did Arthur follow him, and one by one the young pigs were killed.
Who acts: Arthur · What happens: follow, kill · To what, where: Wales, one
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 | Throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 3 Wales | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 Wales | det |
| 3 | Wales | Wales | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 5 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 follow | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 killed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 killed | cc |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 one | nmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pigs | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pigs | amod |
| 15 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 killed | aux:pass |
| 17 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 follow | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past · do-support | Arthur | Wales | all Wales | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme throughout wales=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | kill | past · passive | one by one | vn remove-10.1 «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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