Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 39
They journeyed on till they came to a vast open plain, wherein they saw a great castle, which was the fairest in the world.
Who acts: nephew, great castle · What happens: journey, come, see, be · To what, where: vast open plain, great castle, world
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 (nephew, great castle), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 journeyed | nsubj |
| 2 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 4 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 6 came | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 journeyed | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 plain | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 9 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plain | amod |
| 10 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plain | amod |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 13 | wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 saw | advmod |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 plain | acl:relcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 castle | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 castle | amod |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fairest | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fairest | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 fairest | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fairest | det |
| 23 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 castle | appos |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fairest | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 journeyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | nephew | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | nephew | a vast open plain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to plain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | see | past | nephew | a great castle | wherein property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | is | past | a great castle | the world | fair 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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