Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 10

Precious gold was upon the stirrups and shoes, and the blade of grass bent not beneath them, so light was the courser's tread as he went towards the gate of King Arthur's palace.

Who acts: Precious gold, light, four · What happens: be, bend, go · To what, where: blade, tread, gate

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 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 (Precious gold, light, four), 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	Precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gold	amod
2	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stirrups	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 stirrups	cop
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 stirrups	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 stirrups	det
6	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shoes	cc
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stirrups	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 bent	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 blade	det
12	blade	blade	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bent	nsubj:pass
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 grass	case
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 blade	nmod
15	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stirrups	conj
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 them	advmod
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 tread	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	26 tread	advmod
21	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tread	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tread	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 courser	det
24	courser	courser	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 tread	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 courser	case
26	tread	tread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stirrups	conj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 went	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 went	nsubj
29	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 tread	advcl
30	towards	towards	ADP	_	32 gate	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 gate	det
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 went	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	37 palace	case
34	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 Arthur	compound
35	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 palace	nmod:poss
36	's	's	PART	_	35 Arthur	case
37	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gate	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stirrups	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	Precious gold			upon the stirrups and shoes and the courser's tread	tree rules
2	bend	participle · passive		the blade of grass		beneath shoes = shoe	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme beneath they=Location
3	is a	past	light	the courser's tread			tree rules
4	go	past	four		the gate of King Arthur's palace		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards gate=Initial_Location

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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