The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 53

Every morning she drove the goats out into the desert to graze on the shrubs and bushes which grew there, and every evening they came home of themselves to be milked and to be shut up safely for the night.

Who acts: widow, shrubs, goats · What happens: drive, graze, grow, come, milk, shut up · To what, where: goats, desert

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (widow, shrubs, goats), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 morning	det
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drove	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drove	nsubj
4	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 goats	det
6	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drove	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	10 desert	advmod
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 desert	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 desert	det
10	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goats	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 graze	mark
12	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 desert	acl
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 shrubs	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shrubs	det
15	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 graze	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bushes	cc
17	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 shrubs	conj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 grew	nsubj
19	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 shrubs	acl:relcl
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 grew	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 came	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 came	cc
23	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	24 evening	det
24	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 came	obl:unmarked
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 came	nsubj
26	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drove	conj
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 came	advmod
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 themselves	case
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 came	obl
30	to	to	PART	_	32 milked	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 milked	aux:pass
32	milked	milk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 came	advcl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 shut	cc
34	to	to	PART	_	36 shut	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 shut	aux:pass
36	shut	shut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 milked	conj
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 shut	compound:prt
38	safely	safely	ADV	_	36 shut	advmod
39	for	for	ADP	_	41 night	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 night	det
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shut	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	widow	the goats	the desert	morning		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme into desert=Trajectory
2	graze	to-infinitive	widow not said here				on the shrubs and bushes	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on shrub=Patient
3	grow	past	the shrubs and bushes		there			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	goats = goat			evening	of goats = goat; home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of themselves=Initial_Location
5	milk	to-infinitive · passive	goats = goat not said here					vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»
6	shut up	to-infinitive · passive	goats = goat not said here			night	safely property	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»

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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