Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 23

A wound from Kay's sword no physician could heal.

Who acts: wound · What happens: heal

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 (wound), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wound	det
2	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heal	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 sword	case
4	Kay	Kay	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sword	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Kay	case
6	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wound	nmod
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 physician	det
8	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sword	conj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 heal	aux
10	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	could	a wound from Kay's sword and no physician						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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