The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 63

And then she fetched hay from the barn, and while they were eating it, she swept out the cow-house, and strewed clean straw upon the floor.

Who acts: woman, girls · What happens: fetch, eat, sweep out, strew · To what, where: hay, barn, cow house, clean straw, floor

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 (woman, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3027:585): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 fetched	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fetched	advmod
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetched	nsubj
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 barn	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 barn	det
8	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 swept	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 swept	cc
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 eating	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eating	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 eating	aux
14	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 swept	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eating	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eating	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 swept	nsubj
18	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fetched	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 swept	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 house	det
21	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 house	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 cow	punct
23	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 swept	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 strewed	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 strewed	cc
26	strewed	strew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fetched	conj
27	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 straw	amod
28	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strewed	obj
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 floor	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 floor	det
31	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 strewed	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fetched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	fetch	past	woman	hay	the barn	then	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hay=Theme from barn=Source
2	eat	past · progressive	girls = girl	hay			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
3	sweep out	past	woman	the cow house			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
4	strew	past	woman not said here	clean straw	the floor		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent straw=Theme upon floor=Destination

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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