Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 78
On herself and the horse she rode were the finest colours of the world, and between the ears of the horse was a bird which never stopped singing from the time she came till she went away.
Who acts: lady, bird · What happens: ride, be, not stop, sing, come, go away · To what, where: horse, finest colours, bird, time
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 (lady, bird), 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 | _ | 2 herself | case |
| 2 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 colours | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 horse | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 horse | det |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 herself | conj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 rode | nsubj |
| 7 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horse | acl:relcl |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 colours | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 colours | det |
| 10 | finest | fine | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 colours | amod |
| 11 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 colours | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bird | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bird | cc |
| 17 | between | between | ADP | _ | 19 ears | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ears | det |
| 19 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bird | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 horse | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 horse | det |
| 22 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bird | obl |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bird | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 colours | conj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 stopped | nsubj |
| 27 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 28 stopped | advmod |
| 28 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bird | acl:relcl |
| 29 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 stopped | xcomp |
| 30 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 singing | obl |
| 33 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 time | acl:relcl |
| 35 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 37 went | mark |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 went | nsubj |
| 37 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 singing | advcl |
| 38 | away | away | ADV | _ | 37 went | advmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 colours | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ride | past | lady | the horse not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | lady | the finest colours and a bird | of the world | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | past | lady not said here | a bird | between the ears; of the horse | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not stop | past | a bird | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | sing speech: express | gerund | a bird not said here | time | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | past | lady | the time not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | ||||
| 7 | go away | past | lady | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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