Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 72
On the third day the knights returned once more to the palace, and Yspathaden took the third dart and cast it at them.
Who acts: knights, Yspathaden · What happens: return, take, cast · To what, where: third dart, palace
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 knights | det |
| 6 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 more | advmod |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 returned | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 palace | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 palace | det |
| 12 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | Yspathaden | Yspathaden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 returned | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 dart | det |
| 18 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 dart | amod |
| 19 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cast | cc |
| 21 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cast | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 cast | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the knights | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | Yspathaden | the third dart | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cast | present | Yspathaden not said here | palace | at knights = knight | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at they=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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