Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 7
A gold-hilted sword was on his thigh, and the blade was of gold, having inlaid upon it a cross of the hue of the lightning of heaven.
Who acts: hilted sword, blade · What happens: hilt, be, inlay · To what, where: thigh, cross
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 (hilted sword, blade), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hilted | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 gold | punct |
| 4 | hilted | hilt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sword | amod |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thigh | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 thigh | cop |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 thigh | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 9 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gold | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gold | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 blade | det |
| 13 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 gold | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 gold | case |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thigh | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inlaid | punct |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 inlaid | aux |
| 19 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 thigh | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 inlaid | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 cross | det |
| 23 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inlaid | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 hue | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hue | det |
| 26 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cross | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lightning | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 lightning | det |
| 29 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hue | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 heaven | case |
| 31 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lightning | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hilt | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | a hilted sword | briar's thigh and gold | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the blade | of gold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inlay | gerund · perfect | a hilted sword not said here | a cross of the hue of the lightning of heaven | upon blade | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cross=Destination |
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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