The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 59
Next day he set forth at dawn with the dun cows in front of him, and followed patiently wherever they might lead him.
Who acts: man, cows · What happens: set, follow, lead · To what, where: man
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 (man, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dawn | case |
| 7 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cows | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cows | det |
| 10 | dun | dun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cows | compound |
| 11 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dawn | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 front | case |
| 13 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cows | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 front | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 followed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 followed | cc |
| 18 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 19 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 18 followed | advmod |
| 20 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 lead | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lead | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lead | aux |
| 23 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 followed | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lead | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | man | dawn; day | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | follow | past | man not said here | patiently property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | might | cows = cow | man | wherever property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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