The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 57

As happened before, he was offered by the old man to herd his cows; and, as she had done to his brothers, the maiden counselled him to leave such work alone.

Who acts: old man, sister, maiden · What happens: happen, offer, herd, do, counsell, leave · To what, where: man, cows, such work

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 (old man, sister, 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	2 happened	mark
2	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 offered	advcl
3	before	before	ADV	_	2 happened	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 offered	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offered	aux:pass
7	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	11 man	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 offered	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 herd	mark
13	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 man	acl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 cows	nmod:poss
15	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 herd	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 counselled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 counselled	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 and	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 done	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 counselled	advcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 brothers	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 brothers	nmod:poss
25	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 done	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 maiden	det
28	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 counselled	nsubj
29	counselled	counsell	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 offered	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 counselled	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 leave	mark
32	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 counselled	advcl
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 work	amod
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 leave	obj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	32 leave	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 offered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	participle	the old man not said here		before property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	offer	past · passive	the old man	man		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	herd	to-infinitive	the old man not said here	man's cows		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
4	do	past · perfect	sister		to man's brothers	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	counsell	past	the maiden	man		tree rules
6	leave	to-infinitive	the maiden not said here	such work	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=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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