The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 34

The next day, when the couple rose, they saw an enormous head looking in at their bedroom window, and behind it was a cow which was nearly as big as their hut.

Who acts: couple, Hans, enormous head, cow · What happens: rise, see, look in, be · To what, where: enormous head

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (couple, Hans, enormous head, cow), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 rose	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 couple	det
7	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rose	nsubj
8	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 saw	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rose	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 saw	nsubj
11	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 head	det
13	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 head	amod
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	obj
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 head	acl
16	in	in	ADV	_	15 looking	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 window	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 window	nmod:poss
19	bedroom	bedroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 window	compound
20	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 cow	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 cow	cc
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	27 cow	case
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cow	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 cow	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 cow	det
27	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 saw	conj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 big	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 big	cop
30	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	32 big	advmod
31	as	as	ADV	_	32 big	advmod
32	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cow	acl:relcl
33	as	as	ADP	_	35 hut	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hut	nmod:poss
35	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 big	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rise	past	the couple				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	Hans = han	a enormous head	day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
3	look in	gerund	a enormous head not said here			at Hans's bedroom window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
4	is	past	couple			behind a cow	tree rules
5	is	past	a cow			as Hans's hut; big, nearly property	tree rules

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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