Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 25
When it pleased him he could render himself as tall as the highest tree in the forest.
Who acts: Kay · What happens: render · To what, where: Kay
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pleased | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 him | amod |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 render | advcl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 render | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 render | aux |
| 7 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 render | obj |
| 9 | as | as | ADV | _ | 10 tall | advmod |
| 10 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 render | xcomp |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 13 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 tree | amod |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tall | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 forest | det |
| 17 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 render | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | could | Kay | Kay | tall property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=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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