Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 153

There Arthur and his hosts followed in his track until they overtook him in Cornwall.

Who acts: Arthur, scissors · What happens: follow, overtake · To what, where: track, Arthur, 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 (Arthur, scissors), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 followed	expl
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 followed	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hosts	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hosts	nmod:poss
5	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Arthur	conj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 track	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 track	nmod:poss
9	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 overtook	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtook	nsubj
12	overtook	overtake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	advcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 overtook	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 Cornwall	case
15	Cornwall	Cornwall	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 overtook	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	Arthur and Arthur's hosts			Arthur's track; there			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in track=Location
2	overtake	past	scissors	Arthur		Cornwall			tree rules

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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