The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 64

But a buffalo is not a fairy, and the next morning, when the women arrived to work in the fields, they stood still with astonishment, and said to each other:

Who acts: buffalo, women, fields · What happens: not be, arrive, work, stand, say · To what, where: fairy, each · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buffalo, women, fields), 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	_	7 fairy	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fairy	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fairy	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fairy	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fairy	det
7	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 morning	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 morning	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 morning	amod
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fairy	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 arrived	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 women	det
16	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 arrived	nsubj
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 morning	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 work	mark
19	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 arrived	xcomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 fields	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 fields	det
22	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 work	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stood	punct
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stood	nsubj
25	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 arrived	conj
26	still	still	ADV	_	25 stood	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 astonishment	case
28	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stood	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 said	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 said	cc
31	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stood	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 each	case
33	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	31 said	obl
34	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 each	fixed
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 fairy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	a buffalo	a fairy				tree rules
2	arrive	past	the women					tree rules
3	work	to-infinitive	the women not said here				in the fields	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in field=Theme
4	stand	past	fields = field			still	with astonishment	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	say speech: assert	past	fields = field not said here		each			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient

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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