The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 68
And she went into the dairy, followed by all the cats, and gave each one a little red saucerful.
Who acts: cow · What happens: go, follow, give · To what, where: dairy, one
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 (cow), 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 | _ | 3 went | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 dairy | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dairy | det |
| 6 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 dairy | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 cats | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 cats | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cats | det |
| 12 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | obl:agent |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gave | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gave | cc |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | det |
| 17 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 saucerful | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saucerful | amod |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 saucerful | amod |
| 21 | saucerful | saucerful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | cow | the dairy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into dairy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | follow | participle | the dairy not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | past | cow not said here | each one | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient saucerful=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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