Celtic Fairy Tales, Connla and the Fairy Maiden, part 2, sentence 9
My horse, my bridle, and saddle!" says Guleesh; and on the moment the horse was standing ready caparisoned before him. "
Who acts: horse · What happens: say, stand, caparison · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (horse), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 horse | nmod:poss |
| 2 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bridle | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bridle | nmod:poss |
| 5 | bridle | bridle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 horse | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 says | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 says | cc |
| 8 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddle | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 saddle | punct |
| 11 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Guleesh | Guleesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 says | nsubj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 standing | cc |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 moment | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | obl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 horse | det |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 standing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 standing | aux |
| 21 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 says | ccomp |
| 22 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 standing | xcomp |
| 23 | caparisoned | caparison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ready | xcomp |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 caparisoned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 ready | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 standing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | My horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stand in a quote | past · progressive | the horse | moment | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | caparison in a quote | participle | the horse not said here | before saddle | tree rules |
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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