The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 71

He had only one friend whom he liked, and that was a cowherd, who looked after cattle for one of the farmers in the village.

Who acts: Goldsmith, that, cowherd · What happens: have, like, be, look · To what, where: one friend, cowherd

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 (Goldsmith, that, cowherd), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 friend	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 friend	nummod
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
6	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 liked	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 liked	nsubj
8	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 friend	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cowherd	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cowherd	cc
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 cowherd	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cowherd	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cowherd	det
14	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 looked	punct
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 looked	nsubj
17	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cowherd	parataxis
18	after	after	ADP	_	19 cattle	case
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 looked	obl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 one	case
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 looked	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 farmers	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 farmers	det
24	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 one	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 village	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 village	det
27	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 farmers	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Goldsmith	one friend			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient
2	like	past	Goldsmith	one friend			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot whom=Theme
3	is a	past	that	a cowherd			tree rules
4	look	past	a cowherd		after cattle	for one of the farmers in the village	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for one=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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