The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 47

“‘Not far from this place,’ they said, ‘a cow comes up from the great sea to graze; a little of her dung would cure us.

Who acts: schemes, cow, dung · What happens: say, come up, graze, cure · To what, where: little, great sea, us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (schemes, cow, dung), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
2	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
3	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 far	advmod
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 said	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 place	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 place	det
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 far	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 far	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 cow	det
15	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
17	up	up	ADV	_	16 comes	advmod
18	from	from	ADP	_	21 sea	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sea	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sea	amod
21	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 graze	mark
23	graze	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 comes	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 little	punct
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 little	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 said	obl
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	31 cure	mark
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 dung	nmod:poss
29	dung	dung	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cure	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 cure	aux
31	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 little	advcl
32	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 cure	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	schemes = scheme	a little		far property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come up in a quote	present	a cow		the great sea		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location
3	graze in a quote	to-infinitive	a cow not said here				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	cure in a quote	would	cow's dung	us			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer we=Source

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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