Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 3
After many years the briar appeared, and he took to wife the widow of King Doged.
Who acts: briar · What happens: appear, take · To what, where: wife
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 (briar), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 years | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 years | amod |
| 3 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 appeared | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 briar | det |
| 5 | briar | briar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appeared | nsubj |
| 6 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 took | cc |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 took | nsubj |
| 10 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appeared | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 wife | mark |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 widow | det |
| 14 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 took | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Doged | case |
| 16 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Doged | compound |
| 17 | Doged | Doged | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 widow | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the briar | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | briar | wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Theme widow=Destination |
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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