The Blue Fairy Book, Chapter V, sentence 15

I stored the boat with meat and drink, and took six cows and two bulls alive, with as many ewes and rams, intending to carry them into my own country; and to feed them on board, I had a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn.

Who acts: I · What happens: store, take, intend, carry, feed, have · To what, where: boat, six cows, cows, own country, board, good bundle

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Chapter V. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 stored	nsubj
2	stored	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stored	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stored	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
8	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stored	conj
12	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 cows	nummod
13	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 bulls	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 bulls	nummod
16	bulls	bull	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cows	conj
17	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 took	xcomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ewes	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	22 ewes	case
20	as	as	ADV	_	21 many	advmod
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ewes	amod
22	ewes	ewe	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 took	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rams	cc
24	rams	ram	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 ewes	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 intending	punct
26	intending	intend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 took	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 carry	mark
28	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 intending	xcomp
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carry	obj
30	into	into	ADP	_	33 country	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 country	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 country	amod
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carry	obl
34	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 feed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 feed	cc
36	to	to	PART	_	37 feed	mark
37	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 stored	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 feed	iobj
39	on	on	ADP	_	40 board	case
40	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 feed	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 had	punct
42	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 had	nsubj
43	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stored	conj
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 bundle	det
45	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 bundle	amod
46	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 had	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 hay	case
48	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 bundle	nmod
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 bag	cc
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 bag	det
51	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 hay	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 corn	case
53	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 bag	nmod
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	store	past	I	the boat			with meat and drink	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme
2	take	past	I not said here		six cows and two bulls		with many ewes and rams; alive property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument cow=Destination
3	intend	gerund	I not said here					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	carry not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	cows = cow		my own country		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	feed	to-infinitive	I not said here		cows = cow	board		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
6	have	past	I	a good bundle of hay and a bag of corn				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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