Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 151

On the one side Mabon the son of Modron spurred his steed and snatched his razor from him, whilst Kay came up with him on the other side and took from him the scissors.

Who acts: son, Kay · What happens: spur, snatch, come up, take · To what, where: steed, one side, razor, other side, scissors

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, Kay), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 side	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 side	det
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 side	nummod
4	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurred	obl
5	Mabon	Mabon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 side	appos
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurred	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Modron	case
9	Modron	Modron	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
10	spurred	spur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 steed	nmod:poss
12	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 spurred	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 snatched	cc
14	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spurred	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 razor	nmod:poss
16	razor	razor	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 snatched	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 snatched	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 came	punct
20	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	22 came	mark
21	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 came	nsubj
22	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 spurred	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	on	on	ADP	_	29 side	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
28	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	amod
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 came	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 came	conj
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 scissors	det
35	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 took	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 spurred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spur	past	the son of Modron	son's steed	the one side		vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient
2	snatch	past	the son of Modron not said here	son's razor		from son	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent razor=Theme from he=Source
3	come up	past	Kay		the other side	with son	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Location
4	take	past	Kay not said here	the scissors		from son	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent scissors=Theme from he=Initial_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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