Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 54

Four white trefoils sprang up wherever she trod, and therefore was she called Olwen.

Who acts: Four white trefoils, Olwen · What happens: sprang up, tread, call · To what, where: Olwen · 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 (Four white trefoils, 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	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 trefoils	nummod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trefoils	amod
3	trefoils	trefoil	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprang	nsubj
4	sprang	sprang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 sprang	compound:prt
6	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	8 trod	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trod	nsubj
8	trod	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sprang	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 called	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 called	cc
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	14 called	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux:pass
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 called	nsubj
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sprang	parataxis
15	Olwen	Olwen	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 called	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sprang up	present	Four white trefoils			tree rules
2	tread	past	Olwen		wherever property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call	past · passive		Olwen	therefore property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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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