The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 5

'I need someone to herd my three dun cows, which are hornless,' said the old man. '

Who acts: I, three dun cows, old man · What happens: need, herd, be, say · To what, where: someone, three dun cows · 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 (I, three dun cows, 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 need	nsubj
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 need	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 herd	mark
6	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 someone	acl
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cows	nmod:poss
8	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cows	nummod
9	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cows	compound
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 herd	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hornless	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hornless	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hornless	cop
14	hornless	hornless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cows	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 need	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
22	'	'	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	I	someone		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot someone=Theme
2	herd	to-infinitive	I not said here	my three dun cows		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
3	is	present	my three dun cows		hornless property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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