The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 26

He followed them till he was tired, but he could not catch them, though they seemed ever within his reach.

Who acts: staff, cows · What happens: follow, be, not catch, seem · 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 (staff, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	nsubj
2	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 followed	obj
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	7 tired	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tired	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tired	cop
7	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 followed	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 catch	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 catch	cc
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 catch	advmod
13	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 followed	parataxis
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 catch	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
16	though	though	SCONJ	_	18 seemed	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	advcl
19	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	18 seemed	advmod
20	within	within	ADP	_	22 reach	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 reach	nmod:poss
22	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	staff	cows = cow			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	is	past	staff			tired property	tree rules
3	not catch	could	staff	cows = cow			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	seem	past	cows = cow		ever	within staff's reach	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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