Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter XI, sentence 11

On the brown stallion ambling peacefully yonder there might go the warring of the gods for two or ten thousand years; this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye might be sidling under a load of oaken odes in honour of her owner’s family, with a few bundles of tales of wonder added in case they might be useful; and perhaps the restive piebald was backing the history of Ireland into a ditch.

Who acts: brown stallion, mare, tales, restive piebald, wonder · What happens: amble, go, sidle, add, be, back · To what, where: warring, load, wonder, history, ditch, family · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter XI. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brown stallion, mare, tales, restive piebald), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 stallion	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stallion	det
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stallion	amod
4	stallion	stallion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obl
5	ambling	amble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 stallion	acl
6	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	5 ambling	advmod
7	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ambling	advmod
9	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 warring	det
12	warring	warring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 gods	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 gods	det
15	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 warring	nmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	21 years	case
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 years	nummod
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 thousand	cc
19	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 thousand	compound
20	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 two	conj
21	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	obl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 sidling	punct
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 mare	det
24	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sidling	nsubj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 pace	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 pace	det
27	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pace	compound
28	pace	pace	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mare	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 eye	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 eye	det
31	vicious	vicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eye	amod
32	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pace	conj
33	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 sidling	aux
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 sidling	aux
35	sidling	sidle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 go	advcl
36	under	under	ADP	_	38 load	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 load	det
38	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sidling	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 odes	case
40	oaken	oaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 odes	amod
41	odes	ode	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 load	nmod
42	in	in	ADP	_	43 honour	case
43	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sidling	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	48 family	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 owner	nmod:poss
46	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 family	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 owner	case
48	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 honour	nmod
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 bundles	punct
50	with	with	ADP	_	53 bundles	case
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	53 bundles	det
52	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 bundles	amod
53	bundles	bundle	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 sidling	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 tales	case
55	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 bundles	nmod
56	of	of	ADP	_	57 wonder	case
57	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 tales	nmod
58	added	add	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 wonder	acl
59	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	64 useful	mark
60	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 in	fixed
61	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	64 useful	nsubj
62	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	64 useful	aux
63	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	64 useful	cop
64	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 added	advcl
65	;	;	PUNCT	_	72 backing	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	72 backing	cc
67	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	72 backing	advmod
68	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 piebald	det
69	restive	restive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 piebald	amod
70	piebald	piebald	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 backing	nsubj
71	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	72 backing	aux
72	backing	back	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 go	advcl
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	74 history	det
74	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 backing	obj
75	of	of	ADP	_	76 Ireland	case
76	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	Number=Sing	74 history	nmod
77	into	into	ADP	_	79 ditch	case
78	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	79 ditch	det
79	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 backing	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	amble	gerund	the brown stallion not said here		there		peacefully property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	might		the warring of the gods		year	on the brown stallion	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location warring=Theme
3	sidle	might · progressive	this mare with the dainty pace and the vicious eye		a load of oaken odes		in honour of mare's owner's family; with a few bundles of tales of wonder	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under load=Trajectory
4	add speech: assert	participle		wonder not said here				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	is	might	tales = tale				useful property	tree rules
6	back	past · progressive	the restive piebald	the history of Ireland	a ditch		perhaps property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location history=Theme
7	honour			mare's owner's family				nom honour «state transitive»: of=patient
8	tell		wonder					nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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