Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 1, sentence 63

He leaped up on it, and the moment he was on its back he saw clearly that the rath was full of horses, and of little people going riding on them.

Who acts: horse, moment, rath, little people · What happens: leap up, be, see, go, ride · To what, where: saddle, moment, back

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 (horse, moment, rath, little people), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaped	nsubj
2	leaped	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 leaped	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 leaped	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moment	det
9	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	nsubj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 back	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 back	cop
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 back	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 back	nmod:poss
14	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moment	acl:relcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 saw	nsubj
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 leaped	conj
17	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	16 saw	advmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 full	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rath	det
20	rath	rath	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 full	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 full	cop
22	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 saw	advcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 horses	case
24	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 full	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 people	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 people	cc
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 people	case
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 people	amod
29	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 leaped	obl
30	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 people	acl
31	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 going	xcomp
32	on	on	ADP	_	33 them	case
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 riding	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leap up	past	horse		saddle	of little people	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	is	past	horse	the moment not said here	saddle's back		tree rules
3	see	past	the moment			clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is	past	the rath			of horses; full property	tree rules
5	go	gerund	little people not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	ride	gerund	little people not said here			on people	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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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