The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 64

The cows were so pleased with the care she took of them that they stood quite still while she milked them, and did not play any of the tricks on her that they had played on other dairymaids who were rough and rude.

Who acts: cows, cow, girls, other dairymaids · What happens: be, take, stand, milk, not play, play · To what, where: girls, any, other dairymaids

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 (cows, cow, girls, other dairymaids), 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 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pleased	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 pleased	advmod
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 care	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 care	det
8	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obl
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	nsubj
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 pleased	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 took	obl
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 stood	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stood	nsubj
15	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 took	advcl
16	quite	quite	ADV	_	17 still	advmod
17	still	still	ADV	_	15 stood	advmod
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 milked	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 milked	nsubj
20	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 stood	advcl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 milked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 play	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 play	cc
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 play	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 play	advmod
26	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 took	parataxis
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	26 play	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 tricks	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tricks	det
30	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 any	nmod
31	on	on	ADP	_	32 her	case
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 tricks	nmod
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 played	mark
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 played	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 played	aux
36	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 play	advcl
37	on	on	ADP	_	39 dairymaids	case
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dairymaids	amod
39	dairymaids	dairymaid	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 played	obl
40	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	42 rough	nsubj
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 rough	cop
42	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 dairymaids	acl:relcl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 rude	cc
44	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 rough	conj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 pleased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the cows				pleased property	tree rules
2	take	past	cow				with the care; of girls = girl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of they=Initial_Location
3	stand	past	girls = girl			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	milk	past	cow	girls = girl				vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Source
5	not play	past · do-support		any				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme
6	play	past · perfect	girls = girl		other dairymaids			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	other dairymaids				rough property	tree rules
8	be		other dairymaids not said here					tree rules

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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