The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 75
Time went by, and no cows in the whole country-side were so fat and well tended as hers, and no dairy had so much milk to show.
Who acts: cows, dairy · What happens: go by, be, tend, have, show · To what, where: much milk
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, dairy), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 2 went | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fat | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fat | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 cows | det |
| 7 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fat | nsubj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 side | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 side | amod |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 country | punct |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cows | nmod |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fat | cop |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 fat | advmod |
| 16 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 went | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tended | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 tended | advmod |
| 19 | tended | tend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 fat | conj |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 hers | case |
| 21 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tended | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 had | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 had | cc |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 dairy | det |
| 25 | dairy | dairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 much | advmod |
| 28 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 milk | amod |
| 29 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 had | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 show | mark |
| 31 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 had | advcl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go by | past | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | no cows in the whole country side | fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tend | participle | no cows in the whole country side not said here | as cow; well property | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | have | past | no dairy | much milk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient | ||||
| 5 | show | to-infinitive | no dairy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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