Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 57
"Raise up the forks beneath my two eyebrows which have fallen over my eyes," said Yspathaden Penkawr, "that I may see the fashion of my son-in-law."
Who acts: two eyebrows, Yspathaden · What happens: raise up, fall, say, see · To what, where: forks, two eyebrows, eyes, that · 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 (two eyebrows, Yspathaden), 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 | _ | 2 Raise | punct |
| 2 | Raise | raise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | ccomp |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 Raise | compound:prt |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forks | det |
| 5 | forks | fork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Raise | obj |
| 6 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 9 eyebrows | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyebrows | nummod |
| 9 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Raise | obl |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fallen | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fallen | aux |
| 12 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 eyebrows | acl:relcl |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fallen | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Raise | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Raise | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Yspathaden | Yspathaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 20 | Penkawr | Penkawr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Yspathaden | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 see | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 25 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fashion | det |
| 28 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 son | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 son | nmod:poss |
| 31 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fashion | nmod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 law | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 law | case |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 in | punct |
| 35 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 son | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise up in a quote | infinitive | the forks | my two eyebrows | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fork=Theme beneath eyebrow=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fall in a quote | present · perfect | my two eyebrows | my eyes | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over eye=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Yspathaden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | see in a quote | may | Yspathaden | that | 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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