The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 30, sentence 93

At these words the Dog of Maol-mor disappeared into the forest, and Covan went to seek his cows, which were standing in the hollow where the darkness had come upon them.

Who acts: Dog, Covan, cows, darkness · What happens: disappear, go, seek, stand, come · To what, where: words, cows, hollow

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 (Dog, Covan, cows, darkness), 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disappeared	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Dog	det
5	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disappeared	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 mor	case
7	Maol	Maol	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 mor	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Maol	punct
9	mor	mor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Dog	nmod
10	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 disappeared	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 went	cc
16	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 disappeared	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 seek	mark
19	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 went	xcomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 cows	nmod:poss
21	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 seek	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 standing	punct
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 standing	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 standing	aux
25	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 cows	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 hollow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hollow	det
28	hollow	hollow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 standing	obl
29	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 come	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 darkness	det
31	darkness	darkness	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 hollow	acl:relcl
34	upon	upon	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 come	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 disappeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disappear	past	the Dog of Maol mor		this words	into the forest	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Covan				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	seek	to-infinitive	Covan not said here	companion's cows			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	stand	past · progressive	companion's cows		the hollow		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hollow=Location
5	come	past · perfect	the darkness			upon Covan	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Location

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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