Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 25

On the next morning he put a saddle on a black horse that his father had, and he took the world for his pillow.

Who acts: man, father · What happens: put, have, take · To what, where: saddle, black horse, world

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, father), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 morning	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 saddle	det
8	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 horse	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horse	det
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 horse	amod
12	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 had	obj
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 father	nmod:poss
15	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 horse	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 took	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 took	cc
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 took	nsubj
20	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 pillow	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pillow	nmod:poss
25	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 took	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	man	a saddle	morning	on a black horse	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on horse=Destination
2	have	past	man's father	a black horse			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient
3	take	past	man	the world		for man's pillow	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent world=Theme for pillow=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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