The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 57

So the next day she followed the goats at a distance and watched them while they grazed.

Who acts: widow, goats · What happens: follow, watch, graze · To what, where: goats

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, 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 followed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 day	det
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 day	amod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl:unmarked
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 followed	nsubj
6	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goats	det
8	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 followed	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 distance	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 distance	det
11	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 followed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 watched	cc
13	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 followed	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 watched	obj
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 grazed	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 grazed	nsubj
17	grazed	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 watched	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 followed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	follow	past	widow	the goats	day	at a distance	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goat=Theme at distance=Trajectory
2	watch	past	widow not said here	goats = goat			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	graze	past	goats = goat				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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