Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 152

But before they could obtain the comb he had regained the ground with his feet, and from the moment that he reached the shore, neither dog nor man nor horse could overtake him until he came to Cornwall.

Who acts: scissors, son, dog · What happens: obtain, regain, reach, overtake, come · To what, where: comb, ground, shore, son, 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 (scissors, son, dog), 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	_	10 regained	cc
2	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 obtain	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 obtain	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 obtain	aux
5	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 regained	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 comb	det
7	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 obtain	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 regained	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 regained	aux
10	regained	regain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ground	det
12	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 regained	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 feet	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feet	nmod:poss
15	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ground	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 reached	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 reached	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 moment	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 moment	det
20	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 reached	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reached	nsubj
23	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 regained	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 shore	det
25	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reached	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dog	punct
27	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	28 dog	cc:preconj
28	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 overtake	nsubj
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	30 man	cc
30	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dog	conj
31	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 horse	cc
32	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 man	conj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 overtake	aux
34	overtake	overtake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 reached	parataxis
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 overtake	obj
36	until	until	SCONJ	_	38 came	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 came	nsubj
38	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 overtake	advcl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 Cornwall	case
40	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 came	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 regained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	obtain	could	scissors	the comb				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset comb=Theme
2	regain	past · perfect	son	the ground			with son's feet	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Theme
3	reach	past	son	the shore		moment		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
4	overtake	could	dog nor man nor horse	son				tree rules
5	come	past	son		Cornwall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cornwall=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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