Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 4
She foretold to her stepson, Kilhuch, that it was his destiny to marry a maiden named Olwen, or none other, and he, at his father's bidding, went to the court of his cousin, King Arthur, to ask as a boon the hand of the maiden.
Who acts: wife, stepson, briar, father · What happens: foretell, be, marry, name, go, ask · To what, where: destiny, maiden, court
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 (wife, stepson, briar, father), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 foretold | nsubj |
| 2 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 stepson | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 stepson | nmod:poss |
| 5 | stepson | stepson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foretold | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Kilhuch | punct |
| 7 | Kilhuch | Kilhuch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stepson | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 destiny | punct |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 destiny | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 destiny | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 destiny | cop |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 13 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 foretold | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 marry | mark |
| 15 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 destiny | acl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 maiden | det |
| 17 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marry | obj |
| 18 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 maiden | acl |
| 19 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 named | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 none | punct |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 none | cc |
| 22 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 17 maiden | conj |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 none | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 went | cc |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 went | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bidding | punct |
| 28 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 bidding | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 father | nmod:poss |
| 30 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bidding | nmod:poss |
| 31 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 30 father | case |
| 32 | bidding | bidding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 he | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 bidding | punct |
| 34 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 foretold | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 court | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 court | det |
| 37 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 went | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 cousin | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 40 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 court | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 Arthur | punct |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Arthur | compound |
| 43 | Arthur | Arthur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 cousin | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ask | punct |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 ask | mark |
| 46 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 went | conj |
| 47 | as | as | ADP | _ | 49 boon | case |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 boon | det |
| 49 | boon | boon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 ask | obl |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 hand | det |
| 51 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 boon | appos |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 maiden | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 maiden | det |
| 54 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hand | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 foretold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foretell | participle | wife | to wife's stepson | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | stepson | briar's destiny | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | marry | to-infinitive | wife not said here | a maiden | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maiden=Patient | ||||
| 4 | name | participle | a maiden not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | go | past | briar | the court of briar's cousin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to court=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | briar not said here | as a boon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | bid | briar's father | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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