Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 38

And Arthur called Menw, the son of Teirgwaeth, in order that if they went into a savage country, he might cast a charm and an illusion over them, so that none might see them whilst they could see every one.

Who acts: Arthur, nephew, none · What happens: call, go, cast, see · To what, where: order, savage country, charm, nephew, one · 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, nephew, none), 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	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Menw	Menw	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 called	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 son	det
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Menw	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Teirgwaeth	case
9	Teirgwaeth	Teirgwaeth	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 son	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 order	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 order	case
12	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 called	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 cast	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 went	mark
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 went	nsubj
16	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 cast	advcl
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 country	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 country	det
19	savage	savage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 country	compound
20	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 went	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 went	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 cast	nsubj
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 cast	aux
24	cast	cast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 order	acl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 charm	det
26	charm	charm	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cast	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 illusion	cc
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 illusion	det
29	illusion	illusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 charm	conj
30	over	over	ADP	_	31 them	case
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 illusion	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 see	punct
33	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	37 see	mark
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 so	fixed
35	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	37 see	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 see	aux
37	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 see	obj
39	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	42 see	mark
40	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 see	nsubj
41	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 see	aux
42	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 see	advcl
43	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	44 one	det
44	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 see	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call	past	Arthur		order	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go a condition, not said to happen	past	nephew		a savage country	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location
3	cast	might	Arthur	a charm and a illusion over nephew		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charm=Product
4	see	might	none	nephew		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
5	see	could	nephew	every one		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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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