The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 63

That day the cows wandered father than ever they had done before, and never stopped till they had reached a moor where the heather was burning.

Who acts: cows, heather · What happens: wander, do, not stop, reach, burn · To what, where: father, moor

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 (cows, heather), 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	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cows	det
4	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wandered	obj
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	11 done	mark
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 done	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wandered	advcl
12	before	before	ADV	_	11 done	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stopped	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stopped	cc
15	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	16 stopped	advmod
16	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	conj
17	till	till	SCONJ	_	20 reached	mark
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 reached	aux
20	reached	reach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 stopped	advcl
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 moor	det
22	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 burning	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 heather	det
25	heather	heather	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 burning	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 burning	aux
27	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 moor	acl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the cows	father	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme father=Trajectory
2	do	past · perfect	cows = cow		ever	before property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not stop	past	the cows not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	reach	past · perfect	cows = cow	a moor			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent moor=Theme
5	burn	past · progressive	the heather				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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