The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 87

The stag loved milk, and gladly accepted the invitation, and when the sun began to get a little low the two started on their walk.

Who acts: stag, sun, two, cows · What happens: love, accept, begin, get, start, walk · To what, where: milk, invitation, walk

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, sun, two, cows), 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 stag	det
2	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loved	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 accepted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 accepted	cc
7	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	8 accepted	advmod
8	accepted	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 invitation	det
10	invitation	invitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 accepted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 began	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loved	parataxis
17	to	to	PART	_	18 get	mark
18	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 low	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 low	amod
21	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 get	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 two	det
23	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 started	nsubj
24	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 low	parataxis
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 walk	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 walk	nmod:poss
27	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 started	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 loved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	love	past	the stag	milk			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer milk=Stimulus
2	accept	past	the stag not said here	the invitation		gladly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent invitation=Theme
3	begin	past	the sun				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	get	to-infinitive	the sun not said here			low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	start	past	the two		cows's walk		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	walk		cows = cow				nom walk «act 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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