The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 10

It would be little indeed that I am fit for if I cannot drive three cows out to pasture and keep them safe from the wolves that may come down from the mountains.

Who acts: Counsel, I, wolves · What happens: be, not drive out, pasture, keep, come down · To what, where: three cows, cows, mountains

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Counsel, I, wolves), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 little	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 little	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 little	cop
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	9 fit	advmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 fit	mark
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fit	nsubj
8	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fit	cop
9	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 little	advcl
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 drive	mark
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 drive	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 drive	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 drive	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 drive	advmod
15	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 fit	csubj
16	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 cows	nummod
17	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drive	obj
18	out	out	ADV	_	15 drive	advmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 pasture	mark
20	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 drive	advcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 pasture	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 keep	obj
24	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 keep	xcomp
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 wolves	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 wolves	det
27	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 safe	obl
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 come	nsubj
29	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 wolves	acl:relcl
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 mountains	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mountains	det
34	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 little	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	Counsel			little property	tree rules
2	is	present	I			fit, indeed property	tree rules
3	not drive out a condition, not said to happen	can	I	three cows		out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	pasture	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	keep	infinitive	I not said here	cows = cow		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
6	come down	may	the wolves		the mountains	down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mountain=Initial_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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