The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 29

The following morning, instead of one, three cows stood on the island, and they all ate seaweed and fended for themselves like the first one.

Who acts: three cows, fairies · What happens: follow, stand, eat, fend, like · To what, where: island, seaweed, first one

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 (three cows, fairies), 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	3 morning	det
2	following	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 morning	amod
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	7 one	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 instead	fixed
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 stood	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cows	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cows	nummod
10	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 island	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 island	det
14	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stood	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ate	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ate	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ate	nsubj
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 ate	advmod
19	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
20	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ate	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 fended	cc
22	fended	fend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 themselves	case
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 fended	obl
25	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 fended	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 one	det
27	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	28 one	amod
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 like	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	gerund						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	three cows		the island	morning	instead one	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on island=Location
3	eat	past	fairies = fairy	seaweed				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seaweed=Patient
4	fend	past	three cows not said here				for fairies = fairy	tree rules
5	like	present	three cows not said here	the first one				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

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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