Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 22

Kay had this peculiarity, that his breath lasted nine nights and nine days under water, and he could exist nine nights and nine days without sleep.

Who acts: Kay, breath · What happens: have, last, exist · To what, where: peculiarity, water

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, breath), 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	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 peculiarity	det
4	peculiarity	peculiarity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lasted	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 lasted	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breath	nmod:poss
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lasted	nsubj
9	lasted	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
10	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 nights	nummod
11	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lasted	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 days	cc
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 days	nummod
14	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nights	conj
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lasted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 exist	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 exist	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 exist	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 exist	aux
21	exist	exist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 had	parataxis
22	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 nights	nummod
23	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 exist	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 days	cc
25	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 days	nummod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 nights	conj
27	without	without	ADP	_	28 sleep	case
28	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 exist	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Kay	this peculiarity				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Patient
2	last	past	Kay's breath		water	night		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	exist	could	Kay			night	without sleep	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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