Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 48

They entered the house, and after meat she told them that the maiden Olwen came there every Saturday to wash.

Who acts: affections, woman, maiden Olwen · What happens: enter, tell, come, wash · To what, where: house, affections · 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 (affections, woman, maiden Olwen), 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 entered	nsubj
2	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 entered	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 told	cc
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 meat	case
8	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 entered	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Olwen	det
14	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Olwen	amod
15	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 came	advmod
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 Saturday	det
19	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 came	obl:unmarked
20	to	to	PART	_	21 wash	mark
21	wash	wash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	advcl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	enter	past	affections = affection	the house				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination
2	tell speech: assert	past	woman		affections = affection		after meat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	past	the maiden Olwen			there	saturday	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wash	to-infinitive	the maiden Olwen not said here					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=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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