The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 29

At the door of their stable the maiden stood awaiting them, and saying nought to their herd, she sat down and began to milk.

Who acts: maiden · What happens: stand, await, say, sit down, begin · To what, where: door, cows, nought, herd, milk · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (maiden), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 door	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 stable	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stable	nmod:poss
6	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 door	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maiden	det
8	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stood	nsubj
9	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stood	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 awaiting	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 saying	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 saying	cc
14	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 stood	advcl
15	nought	nought	PRON	PronType=Neg	14 saying	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 herd	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 herd	nmod:poss
18	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 saying	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sat	nsubj
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stood	parataxis
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sat	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 milk	mark
26	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 began	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stand	past	the maiden			the door of cows's stable	vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	await	gerund	the maiden not said here	cows = cow			tree rules
3	say speech: assert	gerund	the maiden not said here	nought	cows's herd		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nought=Topic to herd=Recipient
4	sit down	past	maiden				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	maiden not said here	milk			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Eventuality

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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