The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 96

They soon left the sheep behind them, and entered a large field with a river running through it, where a number of beautiful grey cows were standing by a gate waiting for a milk-maid to come and milk them.

Who acts: sheep, number · What happens: leave, enter, run, stand, wait, come · To what, where: sheep, large field, river

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep, number), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	nsubj
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 left	advmod
3	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 left	obj
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 left	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 entered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 entered	cc
10	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 left	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 field	det
12	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 field	amod
13	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 entered	obl
17	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 entered	advcl
18	through	through	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 running	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 standing	punct
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 standing	advmod
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 number	det
23	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	27 cows	case
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cows	amod
26	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cows	amod
27	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 number	nmod
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 standing	aux
29	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 entered	advcl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 gate	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 gate	det
32	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 standing	obl
33	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 standing	conj
34	for	for	ADP	_	38 maid	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 maid	det
36	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 maid	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 milk	punct
38	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 waiting	obl
39	to	to	PART	_	40 come	mark
40	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 waiting	advcl
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 milk	cc
42	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 come	conj
43	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 milk	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	sheep	the sheep		behind horns = horn; soon property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme behind they=Location
2	enter	past	sheep not said here	a large field		with a river	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination
3	run	gerund	sheep not said here		river		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through it=Trajectory
4	stand	past · progressive	a number of beautiful grey cows			by a gate	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location
5	wait	gerund	a number of beautiful grey cows not said here			for a milk maid	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	come	to-infinitive	a number of beautiful grey cows not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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