The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 39

Crossing this open space was a beautiful milk-white cow with a wreath of flowers round her neck.

Who acts: Crossing · What happens: cross, be · To what, where: open space, beautiful white cow

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crossing), 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	Crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cow	csubj
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 space	det
3	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 space	amod
4	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Crossing	obj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cow	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cow	det
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
8	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 white	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 milk	punct
10	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wreath	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wreath	det
14	wreath	wreath	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cow	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 flowers	case
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 wreath	nmod
17	round	round	ADP	_	19 neck	case
18	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flowers	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund		this open space					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Patient
2	is a	past	Crossing	a beautiful white cow				with a wreath of flowers round cow's neck	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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