The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 106

And they began to eat the grass by the side of the stream, while Covan listened to them and longed for some supper also, for they had travelled far, and his limbs were weak under him.

Who acts: cows, Covan, limbs · What happens: begin, eat, listen, long, travell, be · To what, where: grass, cows

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 (cows, Covan, limbs), 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	_	3 began	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grass	det
7	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 side	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 side	det
10	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eat	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 stream	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stream	det
13	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 side	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 listened	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 listened	mark
16	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 listened	nsubj
17	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 listened	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 longed	cc
21	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 listened	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 supper	case
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	24 supper	det
24	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 longed	obl
25	also	also	ADV	_	21 longed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 travelled	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	30 travelled	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 travelled	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 travelled	aux
30	travelled	travell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 longed	conj
31	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	30 travelled	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 weak	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 weak	cc
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 limbs	nmod:poss
35	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 weak	nsubj
36	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 weak	cop
37	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 began	parataxis
38	under	under	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 weak	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	begin	past	cows = cow				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	to-infinitive	cows = cow not said here	the grass		by the side of the stream	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	listen	past	Covan		cows = cow		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme
4	long	past	Covan not said here			for some supper	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for supper=Theme
5	travell	past · perfect	cows = cow			far property	tree rules
6	is	past	son's limbs			under son; weak property	tree rules

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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