Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 16
At the door stands a milk-white mare, with a golden saddle for you to sit on, and a golden bridle to hold in your hand."
What happens: stand, sit on, hold · To what, where: white mare, door, hand
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 mare | det |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 white | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 milk | punct |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mare | amod |
| 9 | mare | mare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saddle | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 saddle | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 saddle | det |
| 13 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 saddle | amod |
| 14 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 you | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 saddle | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 sit | mark |
| 18 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saddle | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADV | _ | 18 sit | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 bridle | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bridle | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bridle | det |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 bridle | amod |
| 24 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 hold | mark |
| 26 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 bridle | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 hand | case |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 hand | nmod:poss |
| 29 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hold | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| 31 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a white mare | the door | with a golden saddle for you; a golden bridle obl | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mare=Theme at door=Destination | |||
| 2 | sit on | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | hold | to-infinitive | your hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=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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