The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 66
On the other side of the river lay a wide plain, and here the cows lay down, while Covan looked about him.
Who acts: cows, Covan · What happens: lie, lay down, look · To what, where: wide plain, other side
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, Covan), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 side | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 side | amod |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 river | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 river | det |
| 7 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 side | nmod |
| 8 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 plain | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 plain | amod |
| 11 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 lay | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cows | det |
| 16 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lay | nsubj |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | parataxis |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 looked | punct |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 looked | mark |
| 21 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 looked | nsubj |
| 22 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lay | conj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 looked | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a wide plain | the other side of the river | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lay down | present | the cows | here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | look | past | Covan | about water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about 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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