Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 15
And the youth said, "I will willingly grant from this night to that at the end of the year to do so."
Who acts: youth · What happens: say, grant, do · To what, where: end · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (youth), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 grant | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grant | aux |
| 9 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 10 grant | advmod |
| 10 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 night | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 night | det |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 that | case |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 grant | obl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grant | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 year | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 grant | advcl |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 do | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
| 26 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 grant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the youth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | grant in a quote | future | the youth = youth | at the end of the year; night | to that goal; willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to that=Goal | |||
| 3 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | the youth = youth not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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