The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 21, sentence 69

And the buffalo nodded his head and followed her counsel; but in the morning, when these women also went out to work, the races of hoofs were plainly to be seen, and they hastened to tell their husbands, and begged them to bring their guns, and to watch for the robber.

Who acts: buffalo, women, races, hoofs · What happens: nod, follow, go out, work, see, hasten · To what, where: head, counsel, races, husbands, guns · 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, races, hoofs), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 nodded	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buffalo	det
3	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	nsubj
4	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nodded	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 followed	cc
8	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 nodded	conj
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 counsel	nmod:poss
10	counsel	counsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 followed	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 seen	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 seen	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 morning	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 morning	det
15	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 seen	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 went	advmod
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 women	det
19	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 went	nsubj
20	also	also	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 morning	conj
22	out	out	ADV	_	21 went	advmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 work	mark
24	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 went	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 morning	punct
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 races	det
27	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 seen	nsubj:pass
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 hoofs	case
29	hoofs	hoof	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 races	nmod
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux:pass
31	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	34 seen	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	34 seen	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 nodded	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hastened	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 hastened	cc
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 hastened	nsubj
38	hastened	hasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 tell	mark
40	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 hastened	xcomp
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 husbands	nmod:poss
42	husbands	husband	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tell	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 begged	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 begged	cc
45	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 hastened	conj
46	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 begged	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	48 bring	mark
48	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 begged	xcomp
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 guns	nmod:poss
50	guns	gun	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 bring	obj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 watch	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 watch	cc
53	to	to	PART	_	54 watch	mark
54	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 nodded	conj
55	for	for	ADP	_	57 robber	case
56	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 robber	det
57	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 watch	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 nodded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	nod	past	the buffalo	buffalo's head				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	follow	past	the buffalo not said here	girl's counsel				vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme
3	go out	past	this women				out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	work	to-infinitive	this women not said here					vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	see	past · passive		the races of hoofs		morning	plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
6	hasten	past	races = race					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	races = race not said here		races's husbands			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient
8	beg speech: request	past	races = race not said here		races = race			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
9	bring not said to happen	to-infinitive	races = race not said here	races's guns				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gun=Theme
10	watch	to-infinitive	the buffalo not said here				for the robber	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for robber=Theme
11	race		hoofs					nom race «event intransitive»: of=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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