Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 73
But Kilhuch caught it and threw it vigorously, and wounded him through the eyeball, so that the dart came out at the back of his head.
Who acts: Kilhuch, dart · What happens: catch, throw, wound, come out · To what, where: palace, Yspathaden, eyeball, back
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 (Kilhuch, dart), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 caught | cc |
| 2 | Kilhuch | Kilhuch | 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 threw | cc |
| 6 | threw | throw | 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 threw | obj |
| 8 | vigorously | vigorously | ADV | _ | 6 threw | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wounded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wounded | cc |
| 11 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wounded | obj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 eyeball | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eyeball | det |
| 15 | eyeball | eyeball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wounded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 17 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 21 came | mark |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 so | fixed |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dart | det |
| 20 | dart | dart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 wounded | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 came | advmod |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 back | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 back | det |
| 25 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 head | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 head | nmod:poss |
| 28 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 back | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Kilhuch | palace | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | Kilhuch not said here | palace | vigorously property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | wound | past | Kilhuch not said here | Yspathaden | the eyeball | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | come out | past | the dart | the back of Yspathaden's head | 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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