Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 39

The saddle on the mare was silver, and so was the bridle.

Who acts: saddle · What happens: be · To what, where: bridle

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: who acts (saddle), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 saddle	det
2	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silver	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 mare	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mare	det
5	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saddle	nmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 silver	cop
7	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bridle	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bridle	cc
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 bridle	advmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 bridle	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bridle	det
13	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 silver	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 silver	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the saddle on the mare					silver property	tree rules
2	is a	past		the bridle					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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