The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 103

When he came near his home he remembered that he had a cow about to calve, so he laid down the money on the ground, ran home as fast as he could, and asked his wife whether the cow had calved yet.

Who acts: man · What happens: come, remember, have, calve, lay down, run · To what, where: home, cow, money, ground, wife · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	advcl
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 home	nmod:poss
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 remembered	nsubj
8	remembered	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 cow	det
13	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	about	about	SCONJ	_	16 calve	mark
15	to	to	PART	_	16 calve	mark
16	calve	calve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 cow	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 laid	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 laid	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 laid	nsubj
20	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	conj
21	down	down	ADP	_	20 laid	compound:prt
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 money	det
23	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laid	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ran	punct
28	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	conj
29	home	home	ADV	_	28 ran	advmod
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 fast	advmod
31	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 ran	advmod
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 could	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 could	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fast	advcl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 asked	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 asked	cc
37	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 remembered	parataxis
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 wife	nmod:poss
39	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asked	obj
40	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	44 calved	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 cow	det
42	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 calved	nsubj:pass
43	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 calved	aux
44	calved	calve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 asked	ccomp
45	yet	yet	ADV	_	44 calved	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 remembered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	man			man's home			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near home=Location
2	remember	past	man						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	have	past	man	a cow					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
4	calve	to-infinitive	man not said here	a cow not said here					vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lay down	past	man	the money		the ground			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme on ground=Destination
6	run	past	man not said here					fast, home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	ask speech: ask	past			man's wife				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
8	calve	past · perfect · passive		the cow			yet		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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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