The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 39
By-and-by she became very thirsty, and seeing a cow with a milk-pail hanging on her horn, turned towards her.
Who acts: clematis, milk pail, seeing · What happens: become, see, hang, turn · To what, where: cow, horn
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clematis, milk pail, seeing), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 became | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 became | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 became | nsubj |
| 7 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 thirsty | advmod |
| 9 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 became | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 12 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 turned | csubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 cow | det |
| 14 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 pail | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 pail | det |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pail | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 milk | punct |
| 19 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seeing | obl |
| 20 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 pail | acl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 horn | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horn | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hanging | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seeing | punct |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 became | conj |
| 26 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 27 her | case |
| 27 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | clematis | thirsty property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | a cow | with a milk pail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | a milk pail not said here | clematis's horn | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horn=Location | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | seeing | towards clematis | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards she=Trajectory |
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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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