Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 2

Before her death she charged the king that he should not take a wife again until he saw a briar with two blossoms upon her grave, and the king sent every morning to see if anything were growing thereon.

Who acts: mother, King, anything · What happens: charge, not take, see, send, grow, die · To what, where: king, wife, briar

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 (mother, King, anything), 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	Before	before	ADP	_	3 death	case
2	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 death	nmod:poss
3	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charged	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 charged	nsubj
5	charged	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 charged	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 charged	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	again	again	ADV	_	12 take	advmod
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	18 saw	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 take	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 briar	det
20	briar	briar	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 blossoms	case
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 blossoms	nummod
23	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 briar	nmod
24	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 grave	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 grave	nmod:poss
26	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 briar	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sent	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sent	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	nsubj
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 charged	conj
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 morning	det
33	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obl:unmarked
34	to	to	PART	_	35 see	mark
35	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 sent	advcl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	39 growing	mark
37	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	39 growing	nsubj
38	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 growing	aux
39	growing	grow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 see	ccomp
40	thereon	thereon	ADV	_	39 growing	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 charged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	charge	past	mother	the king		before mother's death		tree rules
2	not take	should	King		a wife	again		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination
3	see	past	King	a briar			with two blossoms; upon mother's grave	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer briar=Stimulus
4	send	past	the king			morning		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	see	to-infinitive	the king not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	grow a condition, not said to happen	past · progressive	anything				thereon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	die		mother					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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