The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 107

His task was not quite so easy as it looked, for the cows had a way of straying into the wood, and by the time he had brought one back another was off.

Who acts: task, cows, way, Peronnik · What happens: not be, look, have, stray, bring back, task · To what, where: way, wood, one

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, cows, way, Peronnik), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 task	nmod:poss
2	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 easy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 easy	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 easy	advmod
7	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 looked	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easy	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 had	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cows	det
14	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 straying	mark
19	straying	stray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	acl
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 straying	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 brought	cc
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 brought	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 brought	aux
30	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 easy	parataxis
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 brought	obj
32	back	back	ADV	_	30 brought	advmod
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	30 brought	conj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 off	cop
35	off	off	ADP	_	33 another	compound:prt
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 easy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	Peronnik's task				easy property	tree rules
2	look	past	task					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	have	past	the cows	a way				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
4	stray	gerund	a way not said here		the wood			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into wood=Destination
5	bring back	past · perfect	Peronnik	one		time		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent one=Theme
6	task		Peronnik					nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent

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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