Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 5
He rode upon a grey steed with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold, and a saddle also of gold.
Who acts: briar · What happens: ride, form, have, link · To what, where: saddle, bridle
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 (briar), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rode | nsubj |
| 2 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 steed | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 steed | det |
| 5 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 steed | amod |
| 6 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hoofs | case |
| 8 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 formed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 shell | punct |
| 10 | formed | form | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hoofs | amod |
| 11 | hoofs | hoof | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 steed | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 rode | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bridle | det |
| 15 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gold | case |
| 17 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 gold | amod |
| 18 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bridle | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saddle | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saddle | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 saddle | det |
| 22 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rode | obl |
| 23 | also | also | ADV | _ | 25 gold | advmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saddle | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rode | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | briar | a saddle of gold | upon a grey steed with formed hoofs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | form | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | have | gerund | briar not said here | a bridle of linked gold | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient | ||||
| 4 | link | participle | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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