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title: He rode upon a grey steed with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle o… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode upon a grey steed with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold, and a saddle also of gold. Who acts: briar. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Wooing of Olwen, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Wooing of Olwen, sentence 5

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He rode upon a grey steed with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold, and a saddle also of gold.

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**Who acts:** briar · **What happens:** ride, form, have, link · **To what, where:** saddle, bridle

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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 (briar), 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:pg7885:17:5
# text = He rode upon a grey steed with shell-formed hoofs, having a bridle of linked gold, and a saddle also of gold.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	formed	form	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	saddle	saddle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | briar | a saddle of gold |  |  |  | upon a grey steed with formed hoofs | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **form** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | briar *not said here* | a bridle of linked gold |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Patient |
| 4 | **link** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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