The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 4

And certainly it was a cow, a fine red cow, fat and flourishing, and looking as if it had been fed all its days on spinach.

Who acts: door · What happens: be, flourish, look, feed · To what, where: cow, door

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 (door), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 cow	cc
2	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 cow	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cow	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cow	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cow	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cow	det
9	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cow	amod
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cow	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fat	punct
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cow	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 flourishing	cc
15	flourishing	flourish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 cow	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 looking	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 looking	cc
18	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cow	conj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 fed	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 fed	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fed	nsubj:pass
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fed	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 fed	aux:pass
24	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 looking	advcl
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 days	det:predet
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 days	nmod:poss
27	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 fed	obl
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 spinach	case
29	spinach	spinach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 days	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	door	a cow and a fine red cow and fat		certainly property	tree rules
2	flourish	gerund	door not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	door not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	feed	past · perfect · passive		door	day		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=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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