Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 16

Then Arthur sent messengers to every land within his dominions to seek for the maiden; and at the end of the year Arthur's messengers returned without having gained any knowledge or information concerning Olwen more than on the first day.

Who acts: Arthur, information · What happens: send, seek, return, gain, concern · To what, where: messengers, land, end, knowledge, more

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, information), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sent	advmod
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 land	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 land	det
7	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
8	within	within	ADP	_	10 dominions	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dominions	nmod:poss
10	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sent	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 seek	mark
12	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sent	advcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 maiden	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 maiden	det
15	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seek	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 returned	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 returned	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 end	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 end	det
20	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 returned	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 year	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 year	det
23	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 end	nmod
24	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 messengers	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Arthur	case
26	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 year	nmod
27	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	30 gained	mark
29	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 gained	aux
30	gained	gain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 returned	ccomp
31	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	32 knowledge	det
32	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 gained	obj
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 information	cc
34	information	information	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knowledge	conj
35	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 information	acl
36	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 more	nsubj
37	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 concerning	obj
38	than	than	ADP	_	42 day	case
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 day	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 day	det
41	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	42 day	amod
42	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 more	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	Arthur	messengers	every land	then	within Arthur's dominions	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent messenger=Theme to land=Destination
2	seek	to-infinitive	Arthur not said here				for the maiden	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for maiden=Theme
3	return	past	Arthur not said here			at the end of the year Arthur's messengers		tree rules
4	gain	gerund · perfect	Arthur not said here	any knowledge or information				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme
5	concern	gerund	information not said here	more				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus more=Experiencer

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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