Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 155
Win it they did, and the Boar Truith they hunted into the deep sea, and it was never known whither he went.
Who acts: you, scissors, Boar Truith, Truith · What happens: win, do, hunt, not know, go · To what, where: track, deep sea
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 (you, scissors, Boar Truith, Truith), 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 | Win | win | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Win | obj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Win | parataxis |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hunted | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hunted | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Truith | det |
| 8 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Truith | compound |
| 9 | Truith | Truith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hunted | nsubj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hunted | nsubj |
| 11 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Win | parataxis |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 14 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sea | amod |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hunted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 known | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 known | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 known | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | aux:pass |
| 20 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 21 known | advmod |
| 21 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hunted | parataxis |
| 22 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 went | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 known | parataxis |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Win | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | imperative | you not said here | track | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do | past | scissors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hunt | past | the Boar Truith | the deep sea | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | not know | past · passive | track | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | go | past | Truith | whither property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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