The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 12

Next morning the bell of the deer was not heard amongst the fern before the maiden with the hair of gold had milked the cows, and led them in front of the cottage where the old man and Ardan son of Gorla awaited them.

Who acts: old man · What happens: not hear, milk, lead, await · To what, where: morning bell, cows, front

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 (old man), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bell	compound
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bell	det
4	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 deer	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bell	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 heard	advmod
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	13 fern	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fern	det
13	fern	fern	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heard	obl
14	before	before	ADP	_	16 maiden	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 maiden	det
16	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milked	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 hair	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milked	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 gold	case
21	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hair	nmod
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 milked	aux
23	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 heard	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cows	det
25	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 milked	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 led	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 led	cc
28	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	conj
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 led	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 front	case
31	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 led	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 cottage	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cottage	det
34	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 front	nmod
35	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	44 awaited	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 awaited	nsubj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 son	cc
40	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 son	compound
41	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 man	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 Gorla	case
43	Gorla	Gorla	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 son	nmod
44	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cottage	acl:relcl
45	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 awaited	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	past · passive		the morning bell of the deer			amongst the fern	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	milk	past · perfect		the cows		before the maiden	with the hair of gold	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source
3	lead	past		cows = cow	front of the cottage			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in front=Destination
4	await	past	the old man and Ardan son of Gorla	cows = cow				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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