Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 62

The mare stood there before the door, and a bird sitting between her ears, which began to sing as soon as Trembling was in the saddle, and never stopped till she came home from the church.

Who acts: mare, bird, ears, Trembling · What happens: stand, sit, begin, sing, be, not stop · To what, where: door, ears, saddle, church

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 (mare, bird, ears, Trembling), 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 mare	det
2	mare	mare	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stood	advmod
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sitting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sitting	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bird	det
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sitting	nsubj
12	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
13	between	between	ADP	_	15 ears	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 ears	nmod:poss
15	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sitting	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 began	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 began	nsubj
18	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 ears	acl:relcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 sing	mark
20	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 began	xcomp
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 soon	advmod
22	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 sing	advmod
23	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 saddle	mark
24	Trembling	Trembling	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 saddle	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 saddle	cop
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 saddle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 saddle	det
28	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 soon	advcl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stopped	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stopped	cc
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 stopped	advmod
32	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 came	mark
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 stopped	advcl
36	home	home	ADV	_	35 came	advmod
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 church	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 church	det
39	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the mare	the door; there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before door=Location
2	sit	gerund	a bird	bird's ears		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between ear=Location
3	begin	past	bird's ears			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	bird's ears not said here		soon property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	Trembling	the saddle		tree rules
6	not stop	past				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
7	come	past	mare	the church	home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from church=Initial_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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