The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 37

But it was only when someone was watching her that she did her work; at other times the cow-house was dirty, and the cows ill-fed and beaten, so that they kicked over the pail, and tried to butt her; and everyone said they had never seen such thin cows or such poor milk.

Who acts: stepsister, girl, cow house, cows, everyone · What happens: watch, do, be, feed, beat, kick · To what, where: girl, work, cows, pail, such thin cows · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepsister, girl, cow house, cows), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 watching	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watching	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 watching	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 watching	mark
6	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 watching	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	aux
8	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 watching	obj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 did	mark
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 did	nsubj
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watching	advcl
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 work	nmod:poss
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 dirty	punct
16	at	at	ADP	_	18 times	case
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 times	amod
18	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dirty	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 house	det
20	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 house	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 cow	punct
22	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dirty	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dirty	cop
24	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 did	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 fed	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cows	det
28	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 fed	nsubj:pass
29	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 fed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 ill	punct
31	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 dirty	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 beaten	cc
33	beaten	beat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 fed	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 kicked	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 kicked	advmod
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 kicked	mark
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 kicked	nsubj
38	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 fed	parataxis
39	over	over	ADP	_	41 pail	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 pail	det
41	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 kicked	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 tried	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 tried	cc
44	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 kicked	conj
45	to	to	PART	_	46 butt	mark
46	butt	butt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 tried	xcomp
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 butt	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 said	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 said	cc
50	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	51 said	nsubj
51	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 did	conj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 seen	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 seen	aux
54	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	55 seen	advmod
55	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	51 said	ccomp
56	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 cows	amod
57	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	58 cows	amod
58	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 seen	obj
59	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 milk	cc
60	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 milk	amod
61	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 milk	amod
62	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 cows	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 watching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	stepsister	girl				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	do	past	girl	girl's work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	is	past	the cow house			time	dirty property	tree rules
4	feed	participle · passive		the cows				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
5	beat	participle						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	kick	past	cows = cow		the pail			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
7	try	past	cows = cow not said here					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
8	butt not said to happen	to-infinitive	cows = cow not said here	girl				vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent she=Instrument
9	say speech: assert	past	everyone					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
10	not see	past · perfect	cows = cow	such thin cows or such poor milk				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus
11	work		girl					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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