Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 55

Then Kilhuch, sitting beside her on a bench, told her his love, and she said that he would win her as his bride if he granted whatever her father asked.

Who acts: Kilhuch, Olwen, falcon, father · What happens: sit, tell, say, win, grant, ask · To what, where: bench, love, Olwen, whatever · 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 (Kilhuch, Olwen, falcon, father), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Kilhuch	advmod
2	Kilhuch	Kilhuch	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kilhuch	punct
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Kilhuch	acl
5	beside	beside	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sitting	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 bench	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bench	det
9	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sitting	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Kilhuch	punct
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 love	nmod:poss
14	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 said	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 told	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 win	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 win	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 win	aux
22	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 said	ccomp
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 win	obj
24	as	as	ADP	_	26 bride	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 bride	nmod:poss
26	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 win	obl
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 granted	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 granted	nsubj
29	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 win	advcl
30	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 asked	obj
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 asked	nsubj
33	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 granted	ccomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	Kilhuch not said here			a bench	beside Kilhuch	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside she=Location
2	tell speech: assert	past	Kilhuch	falcon's love	Olwen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient love=Topic
3	say speech: assert	past	Olwen					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	win	would	falcon	Olwen			as falcon's bride	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
5	grant a condition, not said to happen	past	falcon					tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	past	Olwen's father	whatever				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient
7	love		falcon					nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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