The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 23

Then he remembered the cows, and, somewhat frightened, turned back to seek them.

Who acts: wisdom · What happens: remember, frighten, turn back, seek · To what, where: 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 (wisdom), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 remembered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 remembered	nsubj
3	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cows	det
5	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remembered	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 frightened	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 frightened	punct
9	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	_	10 frightened	advmod
10	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 remembered	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct
12	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remembered	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 seek	mark
15	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	xcomp
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 seek	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember	past	wisdom	the cows	then		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
2	frighten	participle				somewhat property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	turn back	past	wisdom not said here				tree rules
4	seek	to-infinitive	wisdom not said here	cows = cow			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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