The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 126

When he was very nearly home he again thought of the cow that was with calf, so he laid down the money, ran home, and asked his wife whether the cow had calved yet.

Who acts: man, cow · What happens: be, think, lay down, run, ask, calve · To what, where: home, money, wife, cow · 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, cow), 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	6 home	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 home	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 home	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 nearly	advmod
5	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	6 home	advmod
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thought	nsubj
8	again	again	ADV	_	9 thought	advmod
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 cow	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 cow	det
12	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thought	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 calf	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 calf	cop
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 calf	case
16	calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cow	acl:relcl
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	9 thought	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	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 ran	punct
25	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 laid	conj
26	home	home	ADV	_	25 ran	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 asked	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 asked	cc
29	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thought	conj
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wife	nmod:poss
31	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 asked	obj
32	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	36 calved	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cow	det
34	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 calved	nsubj:pass
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 calved	aux
36	calved	calve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 asked	ccomp
37	yet	yet	ADV	_	36 calved	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	man	home			nearly property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past	man			again	of the cow	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the cow				with calf	tree rules
4	lay down	past	man	the money				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Result
5	run	past	man not said here				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	man not said here		man's wife			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient clause=Topic
7	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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