Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 62
And on the moment there was a fine horse with a bridle of gold, and a saddle of silver, standing before him.
Who acts: saddle · What happens: be, stand · To what, where: saddle
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 was | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saddle | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 horse | det |
| 8 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 horse | amod |
| 9 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 bridle | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bridle | det |
| 12 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 horse | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bridle | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saddle | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 saddle | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 saddle | det |
| 18 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 silver | case |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saddle | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 standing | punct |
| 22 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 saddle | acl |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 standing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 saddle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a saddle | of silver | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | a saddle not said here | before horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=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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