--- title: One day Owen sat at meat in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, when a… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: One day Owen sat at meat in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, when a damsel on a bay horse entered the hall, and riding straight up to the place where Owen sat she stooped and drew the ring from off his hand. Who acts: Owen, damsel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Owen, damsel), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:31:62 # text = One day Owen sat at meat in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk, when a damsel on a bay horse entered the hall, and riding straight up to the place where Owen sat she stooped and drew the ring from off his hand. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 Owen Owen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Caerleon Caerleon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 12 upon upon ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Usk Usk PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 22 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 damsel damsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 22 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 riding ride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 28 straight straight ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 up up ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 35 advmod _ _ 34 Owen Owen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 36 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 stooped stoop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 off off ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | past | Owen | | | meat | day | in the castle of Caerleon upon Usk | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at meat=Location | | 2 | **enter** | past | a damsel on a bay horse | the hall | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination | | 3 | **ride** | gerund | a damsel on a bay horse *not said here* | | | the place | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to place=Trajectory | | 4 | **sit** | past | Owen | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stoop** | past | damsel | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **draw** | past | Owen *not said here* | the ring | | Owen's hand | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from hand=Initial\_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:** «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/63/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/31/)