The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 70

Half of the herd were already through the fence and cropping the grass on the banks of the stream, but half still remained outside and faded into nothing, even as he watched them.

Who acts: Half, husband · What happens: be, crop, remain, fade, watch · To what, where: fence, grass, banks, nothing

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 (Half, husband), 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	Half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 fence	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 herd	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 herd	det
4	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Half	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fence	cop
6	already	already	ADV	_	9 fence	advmod
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 fence	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fence	det
9	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cropping	cc
11	cropping	crop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fence	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 grass	det
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cropping	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 banks	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 banks	det
16	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 cropping	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 banks	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 remained	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 remained	cc
22	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	24 remained	advmod
23	still	still	ADV	_	24 remained	advmod
24	remained	remain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fence	parataxis
25	outside	outside	ADV	_	24 remained	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 faded	cc
27	faded	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 remained	conj
28	into	into	ADP	_	29 nothing	case
29	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 faded	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 watched	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 watched	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 watched	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 watched	nsubj
34	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 faded	conj
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 watched	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fence	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Half of the herd		the fence			tree rules
2	crop	gerund	Half of the herd not said here	the grass	the banks of the stream			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
3	remain	participle				still	half, outside property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fade	past			nothing			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	watch	past	husband	banks = bank				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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