Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter X, sentence 13

There were fifty cows in all, for he counted them, and each cow had a calf beside her, and each cow and calf was pure white in colour, and each of them had red ears.

Who acts: fifty cows, Mongan, cow, each · What happens: be, count, have · To what, where: cows, calf, colour, red ears

This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter X. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty cows, Mongan, cow, each), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 cows	nummod
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 cows	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 counted	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 counted	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 counted	nsubj
10	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 counted	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 had	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 had	cc
14	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 counted	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 calf	det
18	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
19	beside	beside	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 white	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 white	cc
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 cow	det
24	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	nsubj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 calf	cc
26	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cow	conj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 white	cop
28	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 white	amod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 had	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 colour	case
31	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 white	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
34	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	37 had	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 each	nmod
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 were	conj
38	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 ears	amod
39	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 had	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	fifty cows in all		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	count	past	Mongan	cows = cow			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	have	past	each cow	a calf		beside calf	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calf=Patient
4	is	past	each cow and calf		colour	white property	tree rules
5	have	past	each	red ears			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

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: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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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