Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 11
This apologue got to England at the end of the twelfth century as the sixty-ninth fable, "Wolf, Fox, and Dove," of a rhymed prose collection of "Fox Fables" (_Mishle Shu'alim_), of an Oxford Jew, Berachyah Nakdan, known in the Records as "Benedict le Puncteur" (see my _Fables Of Aesop_, i. p. 170).
Who acts: apologue · What happens: get, rhyme, know, see · To what, where: Dove, England, end, Records, Fables
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 (apologue), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 apologue | det |
| 2 | apologue | apologue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 England | case |
| 5 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 end | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 end | det |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 century | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 century | det |
| 11 | twelfth | twelfth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 century | amod |
| 12 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 fable | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fable | det |
| 15 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 ninth | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 sixty | punct |
| 17 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fable | amod |
| 18 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wolf | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 Wolf | punct |
| 21 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fable | appos |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fox | punct |
| 23 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fable | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Dove | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Dove | cc |
| 26 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 collection | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 collection | punct |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 collection | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 collection | det |
| 31 | rhymed | rhyme | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 collection | amod |
| 32 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 collection | compound |
| 33 | collection | collection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Fables | case |
| 35 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Fables | punct |
| 36 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Fables | compound |
| 37 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 collection | nmod |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 37 Fables | punct |
| 39 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shu'alim | punct |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shu'alim | punct |
| 41 | Mishle | Mishle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Shu'alim | compound |
| 42 | Shu'alim | Shu'alim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Fables | appos |
| 43 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shu'alim | punct |
| 44 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shu'alim | punct |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Jew | punct |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Jew | case |
| 47 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 Jew | det |
| 48 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 Jew | compound |
| 49 | Jew | Jew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Shu'alim | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Berachyah | punct |
| 51 | Berachyah | Berachyah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Shu'alim | conj |
| 52 | Nakdan | Nakdan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 Berachyah | flat |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 known | punct |
| 54 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 Shu'alim | parataxis |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 57 Records | case |
| 56 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 Records | det |
| 57 | Records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 known | obl |
| 58 | as | as | ADP | _ | 62 Puncteur | case |
| 59 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 Puncteur | punct |
| 60 | Benedict | Benedict | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 Puncteur | compound |
| 61 | le | Le | PROPN | Number=Sing | 62 Puncteur | compound |
| 62 | Puncteur | Puncteur | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 known | obl |
| 63 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 62 Puncteur | punct |
| 64 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 65 see | punct |
| 65 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 62 Puncteur | appos |
| 66 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 68 Fables | nmod:poss |
| 67 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 68 Fables | punct |
| 68 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 65 see | obj |
| 69 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 70 Aesop | case |
| 70 | Aesop | Aesop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 68 Fables | nmod |
| 71 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 65 see | punct |
| 72 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 74 p. | punct |
| 73 | i. | i. | X | Foreign=Yes | 74 p. | flat:foreign |
| 74 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 Shu'alim | conj |
| 75 | 170 | 170 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 74 p. | flat |
| 76 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 42 Shu'alim | punct |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | this apologue | Dove | England | at the end of the twelfth century | as the ninth fable and Fox; of a rhymed prose collection of Fox Fables | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to england=Initial_Location of collection=Destination | |
| 2 | rhyme | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | know | participle | the Records | as Benedict le Puncteur | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as puncteur=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | my Fables of Aesop | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fable=Stimulus |
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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