The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 46
Next morning thirty cows stood on the shore, all finding food for themselves.
Who acts: thirty cows, all · What happens: stand, find · To what, where: shore, food
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 (thirty cows, all), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cows | nummod |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shore | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shore | det |
| 8 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 finding | nsubj |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 themselves | case |
| 14 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 finding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | thirty cows | the shore | morning | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shore=Location | |||
| 2 | find | gerund | all | food | for fairies = fairy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for themselves=Beneficiary |
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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