Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 29

And although he was one-handed, three warriors could not shed blood faster than he on the field of battle.

Who acts: three warriors · What happens: hand, not shed · To what, where: Kay, blood

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 (three warriors), 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	_	13 shed	cc
2	although	although	SCONJ	_	7 handed	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 handed	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 handed	aux:pass
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 handed	nummod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct
7	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 shed	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 handed	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 warriors	nummod
10	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 shed	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 shed	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 shed	advmod
13	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shed	obj
15	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 shed	advmod
16	than	than	ADP	_	20 field	case
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 field	nsubj
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 field	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 field	det
20	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 faster	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 battle	case
22	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 field	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 shed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	past · passive		Kay					vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	not shed	could	three warriors	blood				fast property	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source

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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