Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 65
The knights rested in the house of Custennin the herdsman, but the next day at dawn they returned to the castle and renewed their request.
Who acts: knights · What happens: rest, return, renew, request · To what, where: house, request
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 (knights), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rested | nsubj |
| 3 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 house | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 house | det |
| 6 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rested | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Custennin | case |
| 8 | Custennin | Custennin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 house | nmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 herdsman | det |
| 10 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Custennin | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 returned | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 returned | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 day | det |
| 14 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 day | amod |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 dawn | case |
| 17 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | nmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 returned | nsubj |
| 19 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rested | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 castle | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 castle | det |
| 22 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 returned | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 renewed | cc |
| 24 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rested | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 request | nmod:poss |
| 26 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 renewed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past | the knights | the house of Custennin | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in house=Location | ||||
| 2 | return | past | knights = knight | day | to the castle result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | |||
| 3 | renew | past | the knights not said here | knights's request | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent request=Patient | ||||
| 4 | request | knights = knight | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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