Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 63
This poisoned iron pains me like the bite of a gad-fly.
Who acts: poisoned iron · What happens: poison, pain, bite · To what, where: me, gad fly
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 (poisoned iron), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 iron | det |
| 2 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 iron | amod |
| 3 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pains | nsubj |
| 4 | pains | pain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pains | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 bite | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bite | det |
| 8 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pains | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fly | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fly | det |
| 11 | gad | gad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fly | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 gad | punct |
| 13 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bite | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pain | present | this poisoned iron | me | like the bite of a gad fly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | bite | a gad fly | nom bite «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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