Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 13
The skilled companions of Kulhwych are common in European folk-tales (_Cf.
Who acts: skilled companions · What happens: be · To what, where: European folk tales
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 (skilled companions), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 companions | det |
| 2 | skilled | skilled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 companions | amod |
| 3 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 common | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Kulhwych | case |
| 5 | Kulhwych | Kulhwych | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 companions | nmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 common | cop |
| 7 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tales | case |
| 9 | European | European | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tales | amod |
| 10 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 folk | punct |
| 12 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 common | obl |
| 13 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cf | punct |
| 14 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cf | punct |
| 15 | Cf | cf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tales | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 common | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the skilled companions of Kulhwych | European folk tales and Cf | common 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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