Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 83
"I promise thee that willingly," said Kilhuch, "name what thou wilt."
Who acts: Kilhuch · What happens: promise, say, name · To what, where: thee · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 promise | nsubj |
| 3 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 promise | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 willingly | mark |
| 6 | willingly | willingly | ADV | _ | 3 promise | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 promise | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Kilhuch | Kilhuch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 13 | name | name | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 name | obj |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 wilt | nsubj |
| 16 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 what | acl:relcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 name | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise in a quote | present | Kilhuch | thee | willingly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Kilhuch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | name in a quote | infinitive | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/17/83/