The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 50

She went first to the cow-house, which it was her duty to keep clean, but to her amazement she found fresh straw put down, the racks filled with hay, the cows milked, and the pails standing neatly in a row.

Who acts: Barbaik, cow house, racks, pails · What happens: go, be, keep, find, put down, fill · To what, where: cow house, duty, fresh straw, racks, pails, row · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barbaik, cow house, racks, pails), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 went	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 cow	punct
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 duty	punct
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 duty	nsubj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 duty	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 duty	cop
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 duty	nmod:poss
14	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 house	nmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 keep	mark
16	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 duty	acl
17	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 keep	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 found	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 found	cc
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 amazement	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 amazement	nmod:poss
22	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 found	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 found	nsubj
24	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
25	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 straw	amod
26	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	nsubj:pass
27	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 found	ccomp
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 put	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 racks	punct
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 racks	det
31	racks	rack	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 milked	nsubj
32	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 racks	acl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 hay	case
34	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 filled	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 milked	punct
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cows	det
37	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 milked	nsubj
38	milked	milk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 found	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pails	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 pails	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 pails	det
42	pails	pail	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 milked	obj
43	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 pails	acl
44	neatly	neatly	ADV	_	43 standing	advmod
45	in	in	ADP	_	47 row	case
46	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 row	det
47	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 standing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	Barbaik		the cow house	first property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location
2	is a	past	the cow house	Barbaik's duty			tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	Barbaik not said here			clean property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Barbaik			to Barbaik's amazement	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	put down	participle · passive		fresh straw			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
6	fill	participle		the racks not said here		with hay	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hay=Instrument
7	milk	past	the racks	the pails			vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pail=Source
8	stand	gerund	the pails not said here		a row	neatly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location
9	amaze		Barbaik				nom amazement «feeling 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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