Just so stories, How the First Letter Was Written, sentence 180

Here, when they heard the horse-bells ring, The ancient Britons dressed and rode To watch the dark Phoenicians bring Their goods along the Western Road.

Who acts: girls, horse bells, ancient Britons, dark Phoenicians · What happens: hear, ring, dress, ride, watch, bring · To what, where: goods

This is a sentence of «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, How the First Letter Was Written. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girls, horse bells, ancient Britons, dark Phoenicians), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 heard	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 heard	nsubj
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bells	det
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bells	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 horse	punct
9	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ring	nsubj
10	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 dressed	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Britons	det
13	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Britons	amod
14	Britons	Briton	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 dressed	nsubj
15	dressed	dress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 rode	cc
17	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 dressed	conj
18	To	to	PART	_	19 watch	mark
19	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 rode	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Phoenicians	det
21	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Phoenicians	amod
22	Phoenicians	Phoenician	PROPN	Number=Plur	23 bring	nsubj
23	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 watch	ccomp
24	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 goods	nmod:poss
25	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	23 bring	obj
26	along	along	ADP	_	29 Road	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Road	det
28	Western	Western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Road	compound
29	Road	Road	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bring	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	girls = girl		here		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	ring	present	the horse bells				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	dress	past	the ancient Britons				vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ride	past	the ancient Britons not said here				tree rules
5	watch	to-infinitive	the ancient Britons not said here				tree rules
6	bring	present	the dark Phoenicians	girls's goods		along the Western Road	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

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: «Just so stories» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 2781 (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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