Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 17

Some of them were riding on an old besom, and some on a broken stick, and more on a bohalawn or a hemlock-stalk.

Who acts: Some · What happens: ride, break · To what, where: old besom

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 riding	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Some	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 riding	aux
5	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 besom	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 besom	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 besom	amod
9	besom	besom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 riding	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stick	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stick	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	16 stick	nsubj
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 stick	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stick	det
15	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 stick	amod
16	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 riding	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 more	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 more	cc
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 stick	conj
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 bohalawn	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 bohalawn	det
22	bohalawn	bohalawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 more	obl
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 stalk	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 stalk	det
25	hemlock	hemlock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stalk	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 hemlock	punct
27	stalk	stalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bohalawn	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 riding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · progressive	Some			a old besom		on a broken stick	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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