The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 73

“He would not take the cattle to feed until he drank some of the milk from Koumongoé.

Who acts: fault · What happens: not take, feed, drink · To what, where: cattle, some

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fault), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 take	advmod
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cattle	det
7	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feed	mark
9	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 take	advcl
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 drank	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 drank	nsubj
12	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 feed	ccomp
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	12 drank	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 milk	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 milk	det
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 some	nmod
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Koumongoé	case
18	Koumongoé	Koumongoé	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 milk	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	not take in a quote	would	fault		the cattle	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cattle=Destination
2	feed in a quote	to-infinitive	fault not said here			tree rules
3	drink in a quote	past	fault	some		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient

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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