The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 69

There, sure enough, was a vast herd of cattle, which had been sent after him by his father-in-law when he found that his daughter had been cleverer than he.

Who acts: law, husband, daughter · What happens: be, send, find · To what, where: vast herd, cattle · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (law, husband, daughter), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 sure	expl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct
3	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	enough	enough	ADV	_	3 sure	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 herd	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 herd	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 herd	det
8	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 herd	amod
9	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sure	conj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 cattle	case
11	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 herd	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sent	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 sent	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	aux
15	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 sent	aux:pass
16	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cattle	acl:relcl
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sent	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	25 law	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 law	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 law	nsubj
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 law	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 law	case
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 in	punct
25	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sent	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 found	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 found	nsubj
28	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 sent	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 cleverer	mark
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughter	nmod:poss
31	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cleverer	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 cleverer	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	34 cleverer	cop
34	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 found	ccomp
35	than	than	ADP	_	36 he	case
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 cleverer	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sure	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a vast herd		of cattle	tree rules
2	send	past · perfect · passive	husband's law	cattle	after husband		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	find	past	husband				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	is	past · perfect	husband's daughter			than husband; clever 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 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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