The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 46

Moti, of course, was a country lad and had lived with cattle all his life, and he wasn’t rich and he wasn’t proud, so he just borrowed a bed from the innkeeper, set it down beside an old buffalo who reminded him of home, and in five minutes was fast asleep.

Who acts: Moti, old buffalo, country lad · What happens: be, live, not be, borrow, set down, remind · To what, where: country lad, bed, innkeeper, old buffalo, Moti

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moti, old buffalo, country lad), 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	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 lad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 course	punct
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 course	case
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Moti	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Moti	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lad	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lad	compound
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lived	cc
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lived	aux
12	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 lad	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 cattle	case
14	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lived	obl
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 life	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cattle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rich	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rich	cc
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 rich	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rich	cop
22	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 rich	advmod
23	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 proud	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 proud	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 proud	cop
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 proud	advmod
28	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rich	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 borrowed	punct
30	so	so	ADV	_	33 borrowed	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 borrowed	nsubj
32	just	just	ADV	_	33 borrowed	advmod
33	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bed	det
35	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 borrowed	obj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 innkeeper	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 innkeeper	det
38	innkeeper	innkeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 borrowed	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 set	punct
40	set	set	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 lad	parataxis
41	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 set	obj
42	down	down	ADP	_	40 set	compound:prt
43	beside	beside	ADP	_	46 buffalo	case
44	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 buffalo	det
45	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 buffalo	amod
46	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 set	obl
47	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 reminded	nsubj
48	reminded	remind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 buffalo	acl:relcl
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 reminded	obj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 home	case
51	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 reminded	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 asleep	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 asleep	cc
54	in	in	ADP	_	56 minutes	case
55	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 minutes	nummod
56	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 asleep	obl
57	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 asleep	cop
58	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	59 asleep	advmod
59	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lad	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Moti	a country lad					tree rules
2	live	past · perfect	Moti not said here					with cattle Moti's life	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with cattle=Location
3	not is	past	Moti					rich property	tree rules
4	not is	past	Moti					proud property	tree rules
5	borrow	past	Moti	a bed		the innkeeper			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bed=Theme from innkeeper=Source
6	set down	infinitive		bed		a old buffalo			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme beside buffalo=Destination
7	remind speech: other	past	a old buffalo		Moti			of home	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of home=Topic
8	is	past	a country lad not said here				minute	asleep, fast property	tree rules

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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