The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 112

But the Shifty Lad, who could keep still no longer, crept down to the cowshed and loosened the heads of the cattle which were tied, and they began to kick each other and bellow, and made such a noise that the company in the farmhouse ran out to tie them up again.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, Lad, company · What happens: keep, creep down, loosen, tie, begin, kick · To what, where: cowshed, heads, cattle, each, noise, Lad

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shifty Lad, Lad, company), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	13 crept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lad	det
3	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lad	amod
4	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 crept	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 keep	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 keep	aux
8	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 Lad	acl:relcl
9	still	still	ADV	_	8 keep	advmod
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 longer	advmod
11	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 keep	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lad	punct
13	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 crept	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 cowshed	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cowshed	det
17	cowshed	cowshed	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crept	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 loosened	cc
19	loosened	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 heads	det
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 loosened	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 cattle	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cattle	det
24	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 heads	nmod
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 tied	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tied	aux:pass
27	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 cattle	acl:relcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 began	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 began	cc
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 began	nsubj
31	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 kick	mark
33	kick	kick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 began	xcomp
34	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	33 kick	obj
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 each	fixed
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 bellow	cc
37	bellow	bellow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 kick	conj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 made	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 made	cc
40	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 crept	conj
41	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	43 noise	det:predet
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 noise	det
43	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 made	obj
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 ran	obj
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 company	det
46	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 ran	nsubj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 farmhouse	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 farmhouse	det
49	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 company	nmod
50	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 noise	acl:relcl
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 ran	compound:prt
52	to	to	PART	_	53 tie	mark
53	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 ran	advcl
54	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 tie	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 tie	compound:prt
56	again	again	ADV	_	53 tie	advmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 crept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	the Shifty Lad			still	long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	creep down	past	the Shifty Lad		the cowshed		down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cowshed=Destination
3	loosen	past	the Shifty Lad not said here	the heads of the cattle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	tie	past · passive		the cattle				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	begin	past	Lad					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	kick	to-infinitive	Lad not said here	each				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent each=Patient
7	bellow	present	Lad not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make	past	the Shifty Lad not said here	such noise				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
9	run out	past	the company in the farmhouse	such noise				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Trajectory
10	tie up	to-infinitive	the company in the farmhouse not said here	Lad		again		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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