More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 82

Then she met a cow, and the cow said, "Little girl, little girl, milk me, milk me!

Who acts: bread, cow · What happens: meet, say · To what, where: cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread, cow), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 met	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 met	nsubj
3	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cow	det
5	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 met	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 met	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 girl	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 girl	punct
13	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 girl	amod
14	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 girl	punct
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 girl	amod
17	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 milk	punct
19	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 milk	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 milk	punct
22	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 girl	conj
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 milk	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	bread	a cow			then		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Co-Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the cow						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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