The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 1

The cows were standing ready in the place where Covan had left them, and they journeyed on all that day, till, when night fell, they reached the cottage.

Who acts: cows, Covan, night · What happens: stand, be, leave, journey, fall, reach · To what, where: place, cows, cottage

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. 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, night), 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 cows	det
2	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ready	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	cop
4	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 ready	amod
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 place	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 place	det
8	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 left	advmod
10	Covan	Covan	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 left	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 left	aux
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 place	acl:relcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 left	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 journeyed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 journeyed	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 journeyed	nsubj
17	journeyed	journey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ready	parataxis
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 day	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 day	det:predet
20	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 day	det
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 journeyed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 fell	mark
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fell	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 fell	advmod
26	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fell	nsubj
27	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 journeyed	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 reached	punct
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 reached	nsubj
30	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fell	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cottage	det
32	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 reached	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ready	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the cows		the place		ready property	tree rules
3	leave	past · perfect	Covan	cows = cow				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	journey	past	cows = cow			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	fall	past	night					vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	reach	past	cows = cow	the cottage				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cottage=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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