Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 75
As long as I remain alive my eyesight will be the worse.
Who acts: I · What happens: remain, be · To what, where: eyesight
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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 remain | mark |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 remain | nsubj |
| 5 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | advcl |
| 6 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 remain | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyesight | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyesight | eyesight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remain | xcomp |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 worse | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 worse | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 worse | det |
| 12 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 remain | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | I | my eyesight | alive property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | future | I not said here | bad property | tree rules |
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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