Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 10

_) in which the partridge, monkey, and elephant dispute as to their relative age, and the partridge turns out to have voided the seed of the Banyan-tree under which they were sheltered, whereas the elephant only knew it when a mere bush, and the monkey had nibbled the topmost shoots.

Who acts: partridge, elephant · What happens: turn out, void, shelter, know, nibble · To what, where: seed, partridge, Banyan tree, monkey

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. 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 (partridge, elephant), 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	_	6 partridge	punct
2	)	)	PUNCT	_	1 _	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 which	case
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 partridge	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 partridge	det
6	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 monkey	punct
8	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 partridge	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dispute	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dispute	cc
11	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dispute	compound
12	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 partridge	conj
13	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	17 age	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 as	fixed
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 age	nmod:poss
16	relative	relative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 age	amod
17	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dispute	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turns	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 turns	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 partridge	det
21	partridge	partridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 turns	nsubj
22	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 partridge	parataxis
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 turns	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	26 voided	mark
25	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 voided	aux
26	voided	void	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 turns	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 seed	det
28	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 voided	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	33 tree	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 tree	det
31	Banyan	Banyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 tree	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 Banyan	punct
33	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 seed	nmod
34	under	under	ADP	_	35 which	case
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 sheltered	obl
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 sheltered	nsubj:pass
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sheltered	aux:pass
38	sheltered	shelter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 tree	acl:relcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 knew	punct
40	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	44 knew	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 elephant	det
42	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 knew	nsubj
43	only	only	ADV	_	44 knew	advmod
44	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 sheltered	parataxis
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 knew	obj
46	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	49 bush	advmod
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bush	det
48	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 bush	amod
49	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 knew	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 nibbled	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 nibbled	cc
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 monkey	det
53	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 nibbled	nsubj:pass
54	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 nibbled	aux
55	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 voided	parataxis
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 shoots	det
57	topmost	topmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 shoots	amod
58	shoots	shoot	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 nibbled	obj
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 partridge	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn out	present	the partridge				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	void	to-infinitive · perfect	the partridge not said here	the seed of the Banyan tree			vn void-106 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
3	shelter	past · passive		partridge	the Banyan tree		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under which=Location
4	know	past	the elephant	seed		a mere bush obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	nibble	past · perfect · passive		the monkey			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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