Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 91
"It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think that it will not be easy."
Who acts: this, thou · What happens: be, think, not be · To what, where: compass · 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 (this, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | expl |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 easy | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | cop |
| 5 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 easy | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 compass | mark |
| 9 | compass | compass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 easy | xcomp |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 easy | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 think | punct |
| 12 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 15 think | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 think | nsubj |
| 14 | mayest | may | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 think | aux |
| 15 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 easy | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 easy | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 easy | expl |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 easy | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 easy | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 easy | cop |
| 21 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 think | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 easy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | this | compass | for thou; easy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | may | thou | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | future | easy 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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