Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 76
Whenever I go against the wind my eyes will water, and peradventure my head will burn, and I shall have a giddiness every new moon.
Who acts: I, head · What happens: go, burn, have · To what, where: wind, giddiness
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, head), 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 | Whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 go | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wind | det |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 go | conj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 water | aux |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burn | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burn | cc |
| 13 | peradventure | peradventure | ADV | _ | 17 burn | advmod |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burn | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 burn | aux |
| 17 | burn | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | parataxis |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 have | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 burn | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 giddiness | det |
| 24 | giddiness | giddiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 moon | det |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moon | amod |
| 27 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | I | the wind | whenever property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme against wind=Location | |||
| 2 | burn | future | my head | peradventure property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | I | a giddiness | 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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