Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 68
But Menw caught it and flung it back, piercing Yspathaden's breast with it, so that it came out at the small of his back.
Who acts: Menw, castle · What happens: catch, fling back, pierce, come out · To what, where: castle, breast, small
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 (Menw, castle), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg7885:972): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Menw | Menw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 flung | cc |
| 6 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flung | obj |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 flung | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 piercing | punct |
| 10 | piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 flung | advcl |
| 11 | Yspathaden | Yspathaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 breast | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Yspathaden | case |
| 13 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 piercing | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 piercing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 20 came | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flung | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 small | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 small | det |
| 24 | small | small | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 back | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 back | nmod:poss |
| 27 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 small | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Menw | castle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fling back | past | Menw not said here | castle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | gerund | Menw not said here | Yspathaden's breast | with castle | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent breast=Patient with it=Instrument | |||
| 4 | come out | past | castle | the small of Yspathaden's back | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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