The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 29

Early and late the two might be seen in the fields or in the dairy, milking cows, making butter, feeding fowls; working hard themselves and taking care that others worked too.

Who acts: that · What happens: see, milk, make, feed, work, take · To what, where: two, fields, cows, butter, fowls, care

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	Early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 seen	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 late	cc
3	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Early	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 two	det
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seen	nsubj:pass
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 seen	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 seen	aux:pass
8	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 fields	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fields	det
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seen	obl
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 dairy	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 dairy	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 dairy	det
15	dairy	dairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fields	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 milking	punct
17	milking	milk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seen	advcl
18	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 milking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 making	punct
20	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 milking	conj
21	butter	butter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 making	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 feeding	punct
23	feeding	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 milking	conj
24	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 feeding	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 working	punct
26	working	work	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seen	parataxis
27	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 working	advmod
28	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 working	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 taking	cc
30	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 working	conj
31	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 taking	obj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 worked	nsubj
33	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 worked	nsubj
34	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 taking	ccomp
35	too	too	ADV	_	34 worked	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	might · passive		the two	the fields or the dairy	early property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	milk	gerund		cows			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Source
3	make	gerund		butter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset butter=Product
4	feed	gerund		fowls			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Recipient
5	work	gerund		fowls = fowl		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	take	gerund		care			vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent care=Theme clause=Attribute
7	work	past	that				vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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