Celtic Fairy Tales, The Shepherd of Myddvai, sentence 19

But one day here were going to a christening, and she said to her husband it was far to walk, so he told her to go for the horses.

Who acts: one day, Myddvai, christening, shepherd · What happens: go, say, be, tell · To what, where: christening, husband, Myddvai · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Shepherd of Myddvai. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one day, Myddvai, christening, shepherd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	nsubj
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 day	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 christening	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 christening	det
9	christening	christening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 husband	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 husband	nmod:poss
16	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 walk	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 walk	cop
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 walk	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 walk	mark
21	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 husband	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 told	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	25 told	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	nsubj
25	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 told	iobj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 told	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 horses	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 horses	det
31	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 go	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	one day		a christening		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to christening=Initial_Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Myddvai	Myddvai's husband			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient
3	is	past	christening			far, walk property	tree rules
4	tell speech: assert	past	shepherd	Myddvai			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here			for the horses	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for horse=Beneficiary

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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