The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 17

The sea lay before him like a big fish tank, out of which he hauled as many as he required; and the cow continued to fend for herself.

Who acts: sea, Matte, cow · What happens: lie, haul, require, continue, fend · To what, where: many

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, Matte, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	nsubj
3	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lay	obl
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 tank	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tank	det
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tank	amod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tank	compound
10	tank	tank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lay	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hauled	punct
12	out	out	ADP	_	14 which	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 which	case
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 hauled	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hauled	nsubj
16	hauled	haul	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	conj
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hauled	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 required	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 required	nsubj
21	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 many	advcl
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 continued	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 continued	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cow	det
25	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 continued	nsubj
26	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lay	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 fend	mark
28	fend	fend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 continued	xcomp
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 herself	case
30	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 fend	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the sea		before Matte	like a big fish tank	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location
2	haul	past	Matte	many			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent many=Theme out which=Initial_Location
3	require	past	Matte				vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
4	continue	past	the cow				vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	fend	to-infinitive	the cow not said here			for cow	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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