Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 60
And Bedwyr caught it and flung it back, wounding Yspathaden in the knee.
Who acts: Bedwyr · What happens: catch, fling back, wound · To what, where: answer, Yspathaden, knee
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 (Bedwyr), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Bedwyr | Bedwyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flung | cc |
| 6 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flung | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 flung | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wounding | punct |
| 10 | wounding | wound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 flung | advcl |
| 11 | Yspathaden | Yspathaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wounding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 knee | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knee | det |
| 14 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wounding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Bedwyr | answer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling back | past | Bedwyr not said here | answer | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wound | gerund | Bedwyr not said here | Yspathaden | the knee | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yspathaden=Experiencer |
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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