Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 28
None was equal to him in swiftness throughout this island except Arthur and Drych Ail Kibthar.
Who acts: None · What happens: be · To what, where: Kay, swiftness
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 (None), 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 | None | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 3 equal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 equal | cop |
| 3 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 equal | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 swiftness | case |
| 7 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 equal | obl |
| 8 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 10 island | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 island | det |
| 10 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 swiftness | nmod |
| 11 | except | except | ADP | _ | 12 Arthur | case |
| 12 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 island | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 Ail | cc |
| 14 | Drych | Drych | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ail | compound |
| 15 | Ail | Ail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Arthur | conj |
| 16 | Kibthar | Kibthar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ail | flat |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 equal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | None | Kay | swiftness throughout this island except Arthur and Drych Ail | equal property | tree rules |
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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