Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 59

But as they were going forth, Yspathaden seized one of the three poisoned darts that lay beside him and threw it back after them.

Who acts: forks, Yspathaden, darts · What happens: go, seize, poison, lay, throw back · To what, where: one, answer

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, darts), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 seized	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 going	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 going	aux
5	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 seized	advcl
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 going	punct
8	Yspathaden	Yspathaden	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 seized	nsubj
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 poisoned	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 three	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 three	det
13	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 poisoned	obl
14	poisoned	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seized	parataxis
15	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 poisoned	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 darts	acl:relcl
18	beside	beside	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 threw	cc
21	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 poisoned	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	21 threw	advmod
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 threw	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	forks = fork			forth property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	Yspathaden				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	poison	past		one		of the three	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Patient
4	lay	present	darts			beside Yspathaden	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent beside he=Destination
5	throw back	past		answer	after forks = fork		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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