Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 58
They did so, and he promised, them an answer on the morrow.
Who acts: forks, Yspathaden · What happens: do, promise · To what, where: answer, morrow
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 (forks, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 did | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 promised | cc |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 promised | nsubj |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 them | punct |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 promised | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 answer | det |
| 11 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promised | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 morrow | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 morrow | det |
| 14 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answer | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | forks = fork | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | Yspathaden | a answer | the morrow | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent answer=Theme |
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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