Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 50
So Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a collar of ruddy gold, in which were emeralds and rubies, about her neck.
Who acts: Olwen · What happens: come, clothe, be · To what, where: emeralds
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | Olwen | Olwen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 clothed | punct |
| 5 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 came | parataxis |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 robe | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clothed | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 silk | case |
| 10 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coloured | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 flame | punct |
| 12 | coloured | coloured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 silk | amod |
| 13 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 collar | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 collar | cc |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 collar | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 collar | det |
| 18 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 gold | case |
| 20 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 gold | amod |
| 21 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 collar | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 emeralds | punct |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 26 emeralds | det |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 emeralds | cop |
| 26 | emeralds | emerald | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 collar | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 rubies | cc |
| 28 | rubies | ruby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 emeralds | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 neck | punct |
| 30 | about | about | ADP | _ | 32 neck | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 neck | nmod:poss |
| 32 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Olwen | with a collar of ruddy gold; about Olwen's neck | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about neck=Location | ||||
| 2 | clothe | participle | in a robe of coloured silk | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in robe=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | which emeralds and rubies | tree rules |
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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