Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 19
Then said Kay, "Rash chieftain! dost thou reproach Arthur?
Who acts: Kay · What happens: say, do, reproach · To what, where: thou, Arthur · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Kay), 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 | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 chieftain | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 chieftain | punct |
| 6 | Rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chieftain | amod |
| 7 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Kay | appos |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 dost | punct |
| 9 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 said | conj |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 dost | obj |
| 11 | reproach | reproach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dost | xcomp |
| 12 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reproach | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Kay | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | Kay not said here | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reproach in a quote | infinitive | Kay not said here | Arthur | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arthur=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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