Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 31

And Arthur called to Kynthelig the guide. "

Who acts: Arthur · What happens: call · To what, where: guide, Kynthelig · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Arthur), 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 called	cc
2	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 Kynthelig	case
5	Kynthelig	Kynthelig	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guide	det
7	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	participle	Arthur	the guide	Kynthelig				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to kynthelig=Recipient

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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