Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 86

He will not give them of his own free will, and thou wilt not be able to compel him."

Who acts: Turch, thou · What happens: not give, not be, compel · To what, where: scissors, Turch

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 (Turch, thou), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 give	advmod
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 will	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 will	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 free	amod
9	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 will	amod
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 give	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 able	cc
13	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	17 able	nsubj
14	wilt	will	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 able	advmod
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 give	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 compel	mark
19	compel	compel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 compel	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not give	future	Turch		scissors		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	not is	future	thou			able property	tree rules
3	compel	to-infinitive	thou not said here	Turch			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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