Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 67
The knights again withdrew, and as they were going he took the second dart and cast it after them.
Who acts: knights, Yspathaden · What happens: withdraw, go, take, cast · To what, where: second dart, castle
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 knights | det |
| 2 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 withdrew | nsubj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 withdrew | advmod |
| 4 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 took | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 took | cc |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 going | mark |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 took | advcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 took | nsubj |
| 12 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 withdrew | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dart | det |
| 14 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 dart | amod |
| 15 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 took | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cast | cc |
| 17 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cast | obj |
| 19 | after | after | ADP | _ | 20 them | case |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cast | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | the knights | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | knights = knight | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | Yspathaden | the second dart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme | ||||
| 4 | cast | past | Yspathaden not said here | castle | after knights = knight | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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