The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 2

Joyful indeed was the old man as the cows went into their stables, and he beheld the rich milk that flowed into the pail of the golden-haired maiden with the silver comb.

Who acts: Joyful old man, man, rich milk · What happens: be, go, behold, flow · To what, where: Joyful old man, stables, rich milk, pail

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 (Joyful old man, man, rich milk), 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	Joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	6 man	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 man	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	nsubj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 went	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cows	det
9	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 stables	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stables	nmod:poss
13	stables	stable	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 beheld	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 beheld	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 beheld	nsubj
17	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 went	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 milk	det
19	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 milk	amod
20	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 beheld	obj
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 flowed	nsubj
22	flowed	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 milk	acl:relcl
23	into	into	ADP	_	25 pail	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 pail	det
25	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 flowed	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	31 maiden	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 maiden	det
28	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maiden	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 golden	punct
30	haired	haired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 maiden	amod
31	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pail	nmod
32	with	with	ADP	_	35 comb	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 comb	det
34	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 comb	amod
35	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 maiden	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Joyful old man		indeed property	tree rules
2	go	past	the Joyful old man		cows's stables		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into stable=Initial_Location
3	behold	past	man	the rich milk			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus
4	flow	past	the rich milk		the pail of the golden haired maiden with the silver comb		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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