Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 64

Cursed be the smith who forged it, and the anvil whereon it was wrought."

Who acts: you, Cursed smith, iron · What happens: curse, be, forge · To what, where: Cursed smith, iron

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 (you, Cursed smith, 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	Cursed	curse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 smith	amod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 smith	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 smith	det
4	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 forged	nsubj
6	forged	forge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smith	acl:relcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 forged	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 anvil	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 anvil	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 anvil	det
11	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smith	conj
12	whereon	whereon	ADV	PronType=Int	15 wrought	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wrought	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wrought	cop
15	wrought	wrought	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 anvil	appos
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 wrought	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 wrought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	curse	participle				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	imperative	you not said here	the Cursed smith and the anvil		tree rules
3	forge	past	the Cursed smith and the anvil	iron		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product
4	is	past	iron		whereon, wrought property	tree rules

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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