The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 60

This night also he was awakened by the same sounds as before, and in the morning they found, near the stream, the most beautiful cow-house that ever was seen, with stalls and milk-pails and stools all complete, indeed, everything that a cow-house could possibly want, except the cows.

Who acts: same sounds, sounds, cow house · What happens: awaken, find, see, stool, want · To what, where: night, stream, beautiful cow house

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same sounds, sounds, cow house), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 night	det
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 awakened	nsubj:pass
3	also	also	ADV	_	6 awakened	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 awakened	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awakened	aux:pass
6	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 sounds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sounds	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sounds	amod
10	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 awakened	obl
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 before	case
12	before	before	ADV	_	6 awakened	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 morning	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 morning	det
17	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obl
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 found	nsubj
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 awakened	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stream	punct
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 stream	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stream	det
23	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 found	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 house	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 house	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 beautiful	advmod
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 house	amod
28	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 house	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 cow	punct
30	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stream	appos
31	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 seen	nsubj
32	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 seen	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	aux:pass
34	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 house	acl:relcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 stalls	punct
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 stalls	case
37	stalls	stall	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 seen	obj
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 pails	cc
39	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 pails	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 milk	punct
41	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 stalls	conj
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 stools	cc
43	stools	stool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 seen	conj
44	all	all	ADV	_	45 complete	advmod
45	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 stools	xcomp
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 indeed	punct
47	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	34 seen	advmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 everything	punct
49	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 stream	conj
50	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 want	obj
51	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 house	det
52	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 house	compound
53	-	-	PUNCT	_	52 cow	punct
54	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 want	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 want	aux
56	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	57 want	advmod
57	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 everything	acl:relcl
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 cows	punct
59	except	except	ADP	_	61 cows	case
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 cows	det
61	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 found	obl
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	awaken	past · passive	the same sounds	this night			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme
2	find	past	sounds = sound	the stream	morning	except the cows	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Topic
3	see	past · passive		the beautiful cow house	ever	indeed property	tree rules
4	stool	present				complete property	tree rules
5	want	could	a cow house			possibly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot that=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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