Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 61

She said white, with blue and gold-coloured diamond-shaped spots all over her body, on her back a saddle of gold, and on her head a golden bridle.

Who acts: henwife · What happens: say, shape · To what, where: blue coloured shaped spots, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (henwife), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 blue	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 blue	case
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gold	cc
8	gold	gold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blue	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 gold	punct
10	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
11	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 shaped	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 diamond	punct
13	shaped	shape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 spots	amod
14	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 said	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	18 body	advmod
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 body	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spots	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 back	punct
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 back	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 back	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spots	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 saddle	det
24	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spots	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 gold	case
26	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saddle	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bridle	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bridle	cc
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 head	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 head	nmod:poss
31	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bridle	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bridle	det
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bridle	amod
34	bridle	bridle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	parataxis
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	henwife	blue coloured shaped spots a saddle of gold and henwife's back		henwife's body		white property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent spot=Topic
2	shape	participle							vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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