The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 107
I know their ways, and in an hour's time the farmer's wife will be off to milk the cows, which she keeps at some distance.
Who acts: I, cows · What happens: know, keep · To what, where: ways
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ways | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 time | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 time | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 time | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hour | det |
| 9 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 hour | case |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 farmer | det |
| 13 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 farmer | case |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | nmod |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 off | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 off | cop |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 time | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 milk | mark |
| 20 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 time | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cows | det |
| 22 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 milk | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 keeps | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 keeps | nsubj |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 keeps | nsubj |
| 26 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cows | acl:relcl |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 distance | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 distance | det |
| 29 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keeps | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | friends's ways | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | the cows | at some distance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at distance=Location |
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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