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Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 30

Another property he had; his lance would produce a wound equal to those of nine opposing lances.

Who acts: property, lance · What happens: have, produce, oppose · To what, where: wound

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 (property, lance), 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

detnsubjnsubjpunctnmod:possnsubjauxconjdetobjxcompcaseoblcasenummodamodnmodpunctrootAnotherDETpropertyNOUNhePRONhadVERB;PUNCThisPRONlanceNOUNwouldAUXproduceVERBaDETwoundNOUNequalADJtoADPthosePRONofADPnineNUMopposingVERBlancesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AnotheranotherDETPronType=Ind2 propertydet
2propertypropertyNOUNNumber=Sing4 hadnsubj
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 hadnsubj
4hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5;;PUNCT_9 producepunct
6hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs7 lancenmod:poss
7lancelanceNOUNNumber=Sing9 producensubj
8wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin9 produceaux
9produceproduceVERBVerbForm=Inf4 hadconj
10aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art11 wounddet
11woundwoundNOUNNumber=Sing9 produceobj
12equalequalADJDegree=Pos9 producexcomp
13totoADP_14 thosecase
14thosethatPRONNumber=Plur PronType=Dem12 equalobl
15ofofADP_18 lancescase
16ninenineNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card18 lancesnummod
17opposingopposeVERBVerbForm=Ger18 lancesamod
18lanceslanceNOUNNumber=Plur14 thosenmod
19..PUNCT_4 hadpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1havepastanother propertyvn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2producewouldproperty's lancea woundequal propertyvn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Result
3opposegerundvn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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