The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 79

Further on they crossed another plain, where the grass was thick and green, but on it were feeding a foal and its mother, so lean that you could have counted their ribs.

Who acts: cows, grass, you · What happens: cross, be, feed, lean, count · To what, where: plain, foal, ribs

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, grass, you), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	4 crossed	advmod
2	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 crossed	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crossed	nsubj
4	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 plain	det
6	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thick	punct
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 thick	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 thick	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thick	cop
12	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plain	acl:relcl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 green	cc
14	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 thick	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feeding	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 feeding	cc
17	on	on	SCONJ	_	20 feeding	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 feeding	nsubj
19	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 feeding	aux
20	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 thick	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 foal	det
22	foal	foal	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feeding	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mother	cc
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 foal	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 lean	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 lean	advmod
28	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 crossed	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 counted	mark
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 counted	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 counted	aux
32	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 counted	aux
33	counted	count	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 lean	advcl
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 ribs	nmod:poss
35	ribs	rib	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 counted	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cross	past	cows = cow	another plain		further property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=Patient
2	is	past	the grass			thick property	tree rules
3	be		the grass not said here				tree rules
4	feed	past · progressive	grass		a foal and grass's mother		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foal=Recipient
5	lean	infinitive					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	count	could · perfect	you	cows's ribs			vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rib=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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