More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 84
The girl milked the cow into the pails that stood by.
Who acts: girl, pails · What happens: milk, stand by · To what, where: cow, pails
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 (girl, pails), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 milked | nsubj |
| 3 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 milked | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 pails | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pails | det |
| 8 | pails | pail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 milked | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pails | acl:relcl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 stood | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 milked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | milk | past | the girl | the cow | the pails | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source | |||
| 2 | stand by | past | the pails | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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