Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 85

"Throughout the world there is not a comb or scissors with which I can arrange my hair, on, account of its rankness, except the comb and scissors that are between the two ears of Turch Truith, the son of Prince Tared.

Who acts: Yspathaden, scissors · What happens: not be, arrange, be, account · To what, where: comb, hair, rankness

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 (Yspathaden, scissors), 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	_	9 comb	punct
2	Throughout	throughout	ADP	_	4 world	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 world	det
4	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 is	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 is	expl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 comb	cop
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 comb	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 comb	det
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 scissors	cc
11	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 comb	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 which	case
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 arrange	obl
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 arrange	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 arrange	aux
16	arrange	arrange	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 scissors	acl:relcl
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hair	nmod:poss
18	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 arrange	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 account	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 account	case
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 account	punct
22	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rankness	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 rankness	nmod:poss
25	rankness	rankness	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 account	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 comb	punct
27	except	except	ADP	_	29 comb	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 comb	det
29	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comb	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 scissors	cc
31	scissors	scissors	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 comb	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 ears	nsubj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 ears	cop
34	between	between	ADP	_	37 ears	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ears	det
36	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 ears	nummod
37	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 scissors	acl:relcl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 Turch	case
39	Turch	Turch	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 ears	nmod
40	Truith	Truith	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Turch	flat
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 son	punct
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 son	det
43	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 Turch	appos
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 Tared	case
45	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 Tared	nmod:desc
46	Tared	Tared	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 son	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present		a comb or scissors and account of account's rankness and the comb and scissors		tree rules
2	arrange in a quote	can	Yspathaden	my hair	with scissors	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Patient with which=Instrument
3	is in a quote	present	scissors		between the two ears; of Turch	tree rules
4	account in a quote			account's rankness		nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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