The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 106

So the panther prowled about until he saw a fine cow grazing apart from the rest of the herd.

Who acts: panther, fine cow · What happens: prowl, see, graze · To what, where: fine cow, rest

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (panther, fine 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 prowled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 panther	det
3	panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 prowled	nsubj
4	prowled	prowl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 prowled	advmod
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 saw	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 prowled	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cow	det
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saw	obj
12	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cow	acl
13	apart	apart	ADV	_	12 grazing	advmod
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 rest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rest	det
16	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grazing	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 herd	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 herd	det
19	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 rest	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 prowled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	prowl	past	the panther			about property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	panther	a fine cow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus
3	graze	gerund	a fine cow not said here		the rest of the herd	apart property	vn dine-39.5 «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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