Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 61
Then said he, "A cursed ungentle son-in-law, truly.
Who acts: Yspathaden · What happens: say, curse · 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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 said | advmod |
| 2 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 7 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 son | amod |
| 8 | ungentle | ungentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 law | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 law | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 law | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 in | punct |
| 13 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 truly | punct |
| 15 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 13 law | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Yspathaden | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | curse in a quote | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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