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title: Precious gold was upon the stirrups and shoes, and the blade of gras… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Precious gold was upon the stirrups and shoes, and the blade of grass bent not beneath them, so light was the courser's tread as he went towards the gate of King Arthur's palace. Who acts: Precious gold, light, four. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its 
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 10

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Precious gold was upon the stirrups and shoes, and the blade of grass bent not beneath them, so light was the courser's tread as he went towards the gate of King Arthur's palace.

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**Who acts:** Precious gold, light, four · **What happens:** be, bend, go · **To what, where:** blade, tread, gate

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Precious gold, light, four), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7885:17:10
# text = Precious gold was upon the stirrups and shoes, and the blade of grass bent not beneath them, so light was the courser's tread as he went towards the gate of King Arthur's palace.
1	Precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blade	blade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
21	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	courser	courser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
30	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Precious gold |  |  |  |  | upon the stirrups and shoes and the courser's tread | tree rules |
| 2 | **bend** | participle · passive |  | the blade of grass |  |  |  | beneath shoes *= shoe* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme beneath they=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | light | the courser's tread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | past | four |  |  | the gate of King Arthur's palace |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards gate=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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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