Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 71
Henceforth whenever I go up a hill, I shall have a scant in my breath and a pain in my chest."
Who acts: I · What happens: go up, have · To what, where: hill, scant, breath
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 (I), 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 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 2 whenever | advmod |
| 2 | whenever | whenever | SCONJ | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 go | compound:prt |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hill | det |
| 7 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 have | aux |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 scant | det |
| 13 | scant | scant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 breath | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 breath | nmod:poss |
| 16 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 pain | cc |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pain | det |
| 19 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breath | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 chest | case |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 chest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pain | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 24 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | present | I | a hill | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | I | a scant | my breath and a pain in my chest | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scant=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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