Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 158

And Kaw of North Britain came and shaved his beard, skin and flesh clean off to the very bone from ear to ear.

Who acts: Kaw, beard · What happens: come, shave, clean off

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 (Kaw, beard), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
2	Kaw	Kaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Britain	case
4	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Britain	compound
5	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Kaw	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shaved	cc
8	shaved	shave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 beard	nmod:poss
10	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clean	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 skin	punct
12	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flesh	cc
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beard	conj
15	clean	clean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shaved	parataxis
16	off	off	ADP	_	15 clean	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 bone	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bone	det
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 bone	advmod
20	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 clean	obl
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 ear	case
22	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bone	nmod
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 ear	case
24	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bone	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	Kaw of North Britain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shave	past	Kaw of North Britain not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	clean off	present	Kaw's beard and skin and flesh	to the bone from ear to ear	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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