The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 73

Now the cowherd didn't like walking in the evening, because, he said, he had been out grazing the cattle all day, and was glad to sit down when night came; but the goldsmith always worried him so that the poor man had to go against his will.

Who acts: cowherd, night, goldsmith, poor man · What happens: not like, walk, say, graze, be, sit down · To what, where: cattle, cowherd · 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 (cowherd, night, goldsmith, poor man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 like	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cowherd	det
3	cowherd	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 like	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 like	advmod
6	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 like	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 evening	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 evening	det
10	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
12	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 said	mark
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 because	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 grazing	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 grazing	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 grazing	aux
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 been	compound:prt
21	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 said	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cattle	det
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 grazing	obj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grazing	obl:unmarked
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 glad	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 glad	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 glad	cop
29	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	conj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 sit	mark
31	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 glad	xcomp
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 sit	compound:prt
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 came	advmod
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sit	advcl
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 worried	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	41 worried	cc
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 goldsmith	det
39	goldsmith	goldsmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 worried	nsubj
40	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 worried	advmod
41	worried	worry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 like	parataxis
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 worried	obj
43	so	so	SCONJ	_	48 had	mark
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 had	mark
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 man	det
46	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 man	amod
47	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 had	nsubj
48	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 worried	advcl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 go	mark
50	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 had	xcomp
51	against	against	ADP	_	53 will	case
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 will	nmod:poss
53	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 go	advcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not like	past · do-support	the cowherd		now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	walk not said to happen	gerund	the cowherd not said here		evening		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	cowherd				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	graze	past · perfect · progressive	cowherd	the cattle	day		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Experiencer
5	is	past	cowherd not said here			glad property	tree rules
6	sit down	to-infinitive	cowherd not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	worry	past	the goldsmith	cowherd		always property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
9	have	past	the poor man				tree rules
10	go	to-infinitive	the poor man not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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