Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 150

At length, when he would fain have crossed the Severn and escaped into Cornwall, Mabon the son of Modron came up with him, and Arthur fell upon him together with the champions of Britain.

Who acts: son, Arthur · What happens: cross, escape, come up, fall · To what, where: Severn, length, Cornwall

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 (son, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crossed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fain	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 fain	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 fain	aux
7	fain	fain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crossed	xcomp
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 crossed	aux
9	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Severn	det
11	Severn	Severn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 crossed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 escaped	cc
13	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 crossed	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	15 Cornwall	case
15	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Mabon	punct
17	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Cornwall	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 son	det
19	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Modron	case
21	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 son	nmod
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 escaped	parataxis
23	up	up	ADV	_	22 came	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 him	case
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 came	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
28	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 fell	nsubj
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
30	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 fell	obl
32	together	together	ADV	_	29 fell	advmod
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 champions	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 champions	det
35	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Britain	case
37	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 champions	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	present · perfect		the Severn	length	fain property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent severn=Patient
2	escape	past					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come up	past	the son of Modron		Cornwall and Mabon	with Arthur	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cornwall=Initial_Location
4	fall	past	Arthur			upon son; with the champions of Britain; together property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon he=Location

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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