Celtic Fairy Tales, XIII. the Wooing of Olwen., sentence 21

Still more curiously a friend of Lady Guest's found on this a cairn with a stone two feet long by one foot wide in which there was an indentation 4 in. x 3 in. x 2 in. which could easily have been mistaken for a paw-print of a dog, as maybe seen from the engraving given of it (Mabinogion, ed.

Who acts: friend, engraving · What happens: find, mistake, see, give, print · To what, where: cairn, this, engraving, Mabinogion, dog

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 (friend, engraving), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 more	advmod
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 curiously	advmod
3	curiously	curiously	ADV	_	10 found	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 friend	det
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Guest	case
7	Lady	Lady	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Guest	compound
8	Guest	Guest	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 friend	nmod
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Guest	case
10	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	12 this	case
12	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 found	obl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cairn	det
14	cairn	cairn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 stone	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stone	det
17	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cairn	nmod
18	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 feet	nummod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 long	obl:unmarked
20	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 found	advmod
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 foot	case
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 foot	nummod
23	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
24	wide	wide	ADV	_	23 foot	advmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 which	case
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 was	obl
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 was	expl
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 in	cop
29	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 indentation	det
30	indentation	indentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 was	nsubj
31	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 indentation	flat
32	in	in	ADP	_	23 foot	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
34	x	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
35	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 x	flat
36	in	in	ADP	_	34 x	compound
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
38	x	x	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 found	obl
39	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	38 x	flat
40	in	in	ADP	_	10 found	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 mistaken	obj
43	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 mistaken	aux
44	easily	easily	ADV	_	47 mistaken	advmod
45	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 mistaken	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 mistaken	aux:pass
47	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 found	conj
48	for	for	ADP	_	52 print	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	52 print	det
50	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 print	compound
51	-	-	PUNCT	_	50 paw	punct
52	print	print	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 mistaken	obl
53	of	of	ADP	_	55 dog	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 dog	det
55	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 print	nmod
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 seen	punct
57	as	as	SCONJ	_	59 seen	mark
58	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	59 seen	advmod
59	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 mistaken	conj
60	from	from	ADP	_	62 engraving	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 engraving	det
62	engraving	engraving	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 seen	obl
63	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	62 engraving	acl
64	of	of	ADP	_	65 it	case
65	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 given	obl
66	(	(	PUNCT	_	67 Mabinogion	punct
67	Mabinogion	Mabinogion	PROPN	Number=Sing	63 given	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	69 ed	punct
69	ed	ed	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 Mabinogion	appos
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	participle	a friend of Lady Guest	a cairn	this	with a stone; by one foot; x obl; x obl; curiously, long property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cairn=Topic
2	mistake	could · perfect · passive	a friend of Lady Guest not said here			for a paw print of a dog; easily property	tree rules
3	see	participle	a friend of Lady Guest not said here		the engraving	maybe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	give	participle	the engraving not said here	Mabinogion		of indentation	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
5	print			a dog			nom print «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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