The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 7

But a cow she seemed, and a cow she was found to be; and when the old woman began to milk her, every pitcher and pan, even to the baler, was soon filled with the most delicious milk.

Who acts: cow, old woman · What happens: seem, find, be, begin, fill · To what, where: cow, milk

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 (cow, old woman), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 seemed	cc
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cow	det
3	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 seemed	nsubj
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 seemed	nsubj
5	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 found	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 found	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cow	det
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 found	nsubj:pass
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 found	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 found	aux:pass
12	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 seemed	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 be	mark
14	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 found	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 began	cc
17	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 began	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 woman	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 woman	amod
20	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	nsubj
21	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 seemed	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 milk	mark
23	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 began	obj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 milk	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pitcher	punct
26	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	27 pitcher	det
27	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milk	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 pan	cc
29	pan	pan	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pitcher	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 baler	punct
31	even	even	ADV	_	34 baler	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 baler	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 baler	det
34	baler	baler	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 milk	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 filled	punct
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 filled	aux:pass
37	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 filled	advmod
38	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 began	conj
39	with	with	ADP	_	43 milk	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 milk	det
41	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	42 delicious	advmod
42	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 milk	amod
43	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 filled	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	a cow			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · passive		a cow		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme
3	be	to-infinitive	a cow not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	the old woman	milk cow and every pitcher and pan and the baler		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Eventuality
5	fill	past · passive	the old woman not said here		with the delicious milk; soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with milk=Instrument

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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