Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 98
And I shall gain thy daughter, and thou shalt lose thy life."
Who acts: I, thou · What happens: gain, lose · To what, where: daughter, life
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, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 gain | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 gain | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 gain | aux |
| 4 | gain | gain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 6 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gain | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lose | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lose | cc |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 lose | nsubj |
| 10 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 11 lose | aux |
| 11 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 gain | conj |
| 12 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 life | nmod:poss |
| 13 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lose | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gain | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | shall | I | thy daughter | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | shall | thou | thy life | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Eventuality |
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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