The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 50

The company had all heard of the fame of the cow’s milk, and persuaded her to give them some, and then her doom was sealed.

Who acts: cow · What happens: hear, persuade, give, seal, doom · To what, where: company, cow, some, cherries, doom

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 (cow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 company	det
2	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	aux
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 heard	advmod
5	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 fame	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fame	det
8	fame	fame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 milk	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 milk	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 cow	case
13	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fame	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 persuaded	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 persuaded	cc
16	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heard	conj
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 persuaded	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 give	mark
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 persuaded	xcomp
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 give	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sealed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sealed	cc
24	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 sealed	advmod
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 doom	nmod:poss
26	doom	doom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sealed	nsubj:pass
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sealed	aux:pass
28	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 heard	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect · passive		the company			of the fame of the cow's milk; all property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus
2	persuade	past		cow				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Patient clause=Result
3	give	to-infinitive	cow not said here	some	cherries = cherry			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient some=Theme
4	seal	past · passive		cow's doom		then		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	doom		cow					nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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