The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 45
And the girl did as she was bid, and kissed the cow on her forehead and went her way.
Who acts: girl · What happens: do, bid, kiss, go · To what, where: cow, forehead, way
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 (girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 bid | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bid | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bid | aux:pass |
| 8 | bid | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 did | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 kissed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 kissed | cc |
| 11 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cow | det |
| 13 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 forehead | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 16 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kissed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 kissed | conj |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the girl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bid | past · passive | cow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | the cow | cow's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | go | past | cow's way | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
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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