Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 41
When they came before the castle they beheld a vast flock of sheep, boundless and without end.
Who acts: nephew · What happens: come, behold · To what, where: castle, vast flock
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), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beheld | advcl |
| 4 | before | before | ADP | _ | 6 castle | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 castle | det |
| 6 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 beheld | nsubj |
| 8 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 flock | det |
| 10 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flock | amod |
| 11 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beheld | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sheep | case |
| 13 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flock | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 boundless | punct |
| 15 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flock | appos |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 end | cc |
| 17 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 end | case |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boundless | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | nephew | the castle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before castle=Location | ||||
| 2 | behold | past | nephew | a vast flock of sheep | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flock=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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