The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 64
The fire was fierce, but the cows took no heed, and walked steadily through it, Covan the Brown-haired following them.
Who acts: fire, cows · What happens: be, take, walk, follow · To what, where: heed, Covan, fire, cows
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 (fire, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fire | det |
| 2 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fierce | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fierce | cop |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 took | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cows | det |
| 8 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fierce | parataxis |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 heed | det |
| 11 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 walked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 walked | cc |
| 14 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 15 | steadily | steadily | ADV | _ | 14 walked | advmod |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 walked | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Covan | punct |
| 19 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 walked | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 haired | det |
| 21 | Brown | Brown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 haired | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 Brown | punct |
| 23 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Covan | appos |
| 24 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 haired | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 following | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fierce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fire | fierce property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | the cows | no heed | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme | ||||
| 3 | walk | past | the cows not said here | Covan | fire | steadily property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | follow | gerund | the cows not said here | cows = cow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/30/64/