The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 51
There I watched the cow come up from the sea, graze, and go back.
Who acts: I, cow · What happens: watch, come up, graze, go back · To what, where: sea
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 (I, 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 watched | expl |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 watched | nsubj |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | ccomp |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 come | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 graze | punct |
| 12 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 go | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 watched | conj |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | I | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come up | present | the cow | the sea | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | graze | infinitive | the cow not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | go back | infinitive | I not said here | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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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