The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 138

Old Stina was milking the cows in the farmyard, and there was a very familiar lady in a check woollen shawl on her way to the bleaching green to see if the clothes were bleached.

Who acts: Old Stina · What happens: milk, be, see, bleach · To what, where: cows, farmyard, familiar lady, check woollen shawl, clothes

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old Stina), 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	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Stina	amod
2	Stina	Stina	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 milking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 milking	aux
4	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cows	det
6	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 milking	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 farmyard	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmyard	det
9	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 milking	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lady	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 was	cc
12	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	13 was	expl
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 lady	cop
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 lady	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 familiar	advmod
16	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 lady	amod
17	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 milking	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 shawl	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 shawl	det
20	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shawl	compound
21	woollen	woollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shawl	amod
22	shawl	shawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lady	nmod
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shawl	nmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 bleaching	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 bleaching	det
28	bleaching	bleaching	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 way	nmod
29	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 bleaching	amod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 see	mark
31	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 green	advcl
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 bleached	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clothes	det
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	36 bleached	nsubj:pass
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 bleached	aux:pass
36	bleached	bleach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 see	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 milking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	milk	past · progressive	Old Stina	the cows	the farmyard	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source
2	is a	past		a familiar lady	a check woollen shawl on Stina's way to the bleaching	tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	bleach a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		the clothes		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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