The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 24

Luckily they had not strayed far, and were quietly feeding on the thick green grass.

Who acts: cows · What happens: not stray, feed

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), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	5 strayed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 strayed	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 strayed	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 strayed	advmod
5	strayed	stray	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 strayed	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 feeding	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 feeding	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 feeding	aux
10	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	11 feeding	advmod
11	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 strayed	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	16 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
14	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feeding	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 strayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stray	past · perfect	cows = cow					far, luckily property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	feed	past · progressive	cows = cow not said here					on the thick green grass; quietly property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient

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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