The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 53

The same thing took place every day, and never had the cow-house been so clean nor the cows so fat.

Who acts: same thing, cows · What happens: take, not have, be · To what, where: place, cow house

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 (same thing, cows), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 had	advmod
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 clean	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 house	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 cow	punct
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 clean	cop
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 clean	advmod
18	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	parataxis
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 fat	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cows	det
21	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 fat	nsubj
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 fat	advmod
23	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 clean	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the same thing	place	day		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	not have	past		the cow house			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient
3	is	participle				clean property	tree rules
4	be		the cows				tree rules

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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