Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 8

Two brindled, white-breasted greyhounds, with strong collars of rubies, sported round him, and his courser cast up four sods with its four hoofs like four swallows about his head.

Who acts: courser · What happens: breast, sport, cast up · To what, where: strong collars, four sods

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 (courser), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 greyhounds	nummod
2	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 greyhounds	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brindled	punct
4	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 breasted	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 white	punct
6	breasted	breast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 greyhounds	amod
7	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 collars	punct
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 collars	case
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 collars	amod
11	collars	collar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 greyhounds	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 rubies	case
13	rubies	ruby	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 collars	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sported	punct
15	sported	sport	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 collars	acl
16	round	round	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sported	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cast	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cast	cc
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 courser	nmod:poss
21	courser	courser	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cast	nsubj
22	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 greyhounds	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 cast	compound:prt
24	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 sods	nummod
25	sods	sod	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cast	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	29 hoofs	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 hoofs	nmod:poss
28	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hoofs	nummod
29	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sods	nmod
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 swallows	case
31	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 swallows	nummod
32	swallows	swallow	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hoofs	nmod
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 head	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 head	nmod:poss
35	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 swallows	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 greyhounds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	breast	participle				vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	sport	participle		strong collars of rubies not said here	round briar	tree rules
3	cast up	past	briar's courser	four sods	with courser's four hoofs like four swallows about briar's head	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sod=Product

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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