Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 9

Upon the steed was a four-cornered cloth of purple, and an apple of gold was at each corner.

Who acts: apple · What happens: corner, be · To what, where: four, cornered cloth, corner

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 (apple), 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	Upon	upon	ADP	_	3 steed	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 steed	det
3	steed	steed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cloth	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cloth	det
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cornered	nsubj:pass
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 four	punct
8	cornered	corner	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 cloth	amod
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 purple	case
11	purple	purple	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 corner	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 corner	cc
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 apple	det
15	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 corner	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 gold	case
17	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 apple	nmod
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 corner	cop
19	at	at	ADP	_	21 corner	case
20	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	21 corner	det
21	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cloth	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 cloth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	corner	participle · passive		four			tree rules
2	is a	past		a cornered cloth and each corner		upon the steed; of purple	tree rules
3	is	past	a apple of gold		each corner		tree rules

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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