Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 163

By my free will thou shouldst never have had her, for with her I lose my life."

Who acts: thou, I · What happens: not have, lose · To what, where: daughter, life

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 (thou, I), 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	By	by	ADP	_	9 had	case
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 free	nmod:poss
3	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 had	advcl
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
5	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	9 had	nsubj
6	shouldst	should	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	9 had	aux
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 had	advmod
8	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	aux
9	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 lose	advcl
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 her	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 her	case
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 lose	nsubj
16	lose	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 life	nmod:poss
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lose	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 lose	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 lose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	should · future · perfect	thou	daughter				for daughter	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
2	lose	present	I	my life					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality

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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