The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 18

In autumn, when Matte and Maie went ashore, the cow went to sea, and in spring, when they returned to the rock, there she stood awaiting them.

Who acts: Matte, cow, quantities · What happens: go, return, stand, await · To what, where: sea, quantities

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 (Matte, cow, quantities), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 autumn	case
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 went	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 autumn	punct
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
5	Matte	Matte	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 went	nsubj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Maie	cc
7	Maie	Maie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Matte	conj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	ashore	ashore	ADV	_	8 went	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	nsubj
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 sea	case
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 went	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stood	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stood	cc
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 spring	case
19	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stood	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 returned	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 returned	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 returned	nsubj
23	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 spring	acl:relcl
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 rock	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rock	det
26	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 returned	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 spring	punct
28	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	30 stood	expl
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stood	nsubj
30	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 went	conj
31	awaiting	await	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stood	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awaiting	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Matte and Maie			autumn	ashore property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	the cow		sea			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sea=Initial_Location
3	return	past	quantities = quantity				to the rock result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to rock=Result
4	stand	past	cow		there	spring		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	await	gerund	cow not said here	quantities = quantity				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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