The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 44
The butcher got ready his pole-axe; but just as he was going to strike, the cow changed itself into a dove and flew away, and the butcher stood staring after it as if he were turned to stone.
Who acts: butcher, cow · What happens: get, go, strike, change, fly away, stand · To what, where: axe, dove, butcher, stone
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 (butcher, 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 | 2 butcher | det |
| 2 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 got | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 axe | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 axe | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 pole | punct |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 going | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 going | cc |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 going | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 got | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 strike | mark |
| 17 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 going | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cow | det |
| 20 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 22 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 changed | obj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 dove | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 dove | det |
| 25 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 flew | cc |
| 27 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 changed | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 flew | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 stood | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 stood | cc |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 butcher | det |
| 32 | butcher | butcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 stood | nsubj |
| 33 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 34 | staring | stare | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 stood | xcomp |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 staring | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 38 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 turned | mark |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 turned | nsubj |
| 40 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 turned | aux:pass |
| 41 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 stood | advcl |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 stone | case |
| 43 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 turned | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the butcher | ready property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | butcher | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | strike | to-infinitive | butcher not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | change | past | the cow | axe | into a dove result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent itself=Patient into dove=Result | |||
| 5 | fly away | past | the cow not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past | the butcher | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | stare | gerund | the butcher not said here | after dove | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | turn | past · passive | butcher | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/39/44/