Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 26
And he had another peculiarity--so great was the heat of his nature, that, when it rained hardest, whatever he carried remained dry for a handbreadth above and a handbreadth below his hand; and when his companions were coldest, it was to them as fuel with which to light their fire.
Who acts: Kay, that, companions, peculiarity · What happens: have, be, rain, carry, remain, light · To what, where: peculiarity, great heat, hardest, fire
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, that, companions, peculiarity), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 had | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 peculiarity | det |
| 5 | peculiarity | peculiarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 heat | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 great | advmod |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heat | amod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heat | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heat | det |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nature | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heat | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rained | punct |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 rained | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rained | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 rained | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rained | nsubj |
| 20 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | conj |
| 21 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 rained | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 whatever | punct |
| 23 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hardest | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 carried | nsubj |
| 25 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 whatever | acl:relcl |
| 26 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 carried | conj |
| 27 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 remained | xcomp |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 handbreadth | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 handbreadth | det |
| 30 | handbreadth | handbreadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dry | obl |
| 31 | above | above | ADV | _ | 30 handbreadth | advmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 handbreadth | cc |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 handbreadth | det |
| 34 | handbreadth | handbreadth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 handbreadth | conj |
| 35 | below | below | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 hand | nmod:poss |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 handbreadth | nmod |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 coldest | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 coldest | cc |
| 40 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 44 coldest | mark |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 companions | nmod:poss |
| 42 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 coldest | nsubj |
| 43 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 coldest | cop |
| 44 | coldest | cold | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 had | parataxis |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 them | punct |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 them | nsubj |
| 47 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 them | cop |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 them | case |
| 49 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 coldest | conj |
| 50 | as | as | ADP | _ | 51 fuel | case |
| 51 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 them | nmod |
| 52 | with | with | ADP | _ | 53 which | case |
| 53 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 55 light | obl |
| 54 | to | to | PART | _ | 55 light | mark |
| 55 | light | light | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 fuel | acl:relcl |
| 56 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 57 fire | nmod:poss |
| 57 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 light | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Kay | another peculiarity | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peculiarity=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the great heat | of Kay's nature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rain | past | that | hardest | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry | past | Kay | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | remain | participle | Kay not said here | dry property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | Kay's companions | cold property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | past | peculiarity | to handbreadth; as fuel | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | light | to-infinitive | peculiarity not said here | companions's fire | with fuel | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product with which=Material | |||
| 9 | fire | companions = companion | nom fire «event transitive»: 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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