Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 44

On the approach of the latter, she ran out with joy to greet them, and sought to throw her arms about their necks.

Who acts: wife · What happens: run out, greet, seek, throw · To what, where: approach, nephew, arms

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), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 approach	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 approach	det
3	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 latter	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 latter	det
6	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 approach	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 approach	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ran	nsubj
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 ran	compound:prt
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 joy	case
12	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 greet	mark
14	greet	greet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ran	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 greet	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 sought	cc
18	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ran	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 throw	mark
20	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sought	xcomp
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 throw	obj
23	about	about	ADP	_	25 necks	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 necks	nmod:poss
25	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 throw	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	run out	past	wife			the approach of the latter	with joy	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on approach=Trajectory
2	greet speech: greet	to-infinitive	wife not said here		nephew			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	seek	past	wife not said here					tree rules
4	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	wife not said here	wife's arms			about nephew's necks	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent arm=Theme about neck=Destination

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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