Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 33

For as good a guide was he in a land which he had never seen as he was in his own.

Who acts: Kynthelig · What happens: be, not see · To what, where: Kynthelig, land

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 (Kynthelig), 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	For	for	ADP	_	5 guide	case
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 guide	amod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guide	det
5	guide	guide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 he	cop
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 guide	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 land	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 land	det
10	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 he	nmod
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 seen	nsubj:pass
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seen	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 seen	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 seen	advmod
15	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 land	acl:relcl
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 own	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 own	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 own	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 own	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 own	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 seen	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 guide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Kynthelig	a land		tree rules
2	not see	past · perfect · passive		a land			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
3	is	past	Kynthelig			own 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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