Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 46
"O woman," said Kay, "if thou hadst squeezed me thus, none could ever again have set their affections on me.
Who acts: woman · What happens: say, squeeze, set · To what, where: thou, none · 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 (woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 woman | discourse |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Kay | Kay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 squeezed | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 squeezed | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 squeezed | mark |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 squeezed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | hadst | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 squeezed | aux:pass |
| 13 | squeezed | squeeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 squeezed | obj |
| 15 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 squeezed | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 set | punct |
| 17 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 22 set | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 20 again | advmod |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 set | advmod |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 set | aux |
| 22 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 squeezed | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 affections | nmod:poss |
| 24 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 set | obj |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 set | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | squeeze in a quote | past · passive | thou | thus property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Theme i=Result | ||||
| 3 | set in a quote | could · perfect · passive | none | again | on woman | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme affection=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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