The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 24

Then the maiden stepped up to the stove where the animals were lying, and stroked the cock and the hen, and scratched the brindled cow between its horns.

Who acts: maiden, animals · What happens: step up, lie, stroke, scratch · To what, where: stove, cock, brindled cow, horns

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, animals), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stepped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	nsubj
4	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stepped	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stove	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stove	det
8	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stepped	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lying	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 animals	det
11	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lying	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lying	aux
13	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 stove	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stroked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stroked	cc
16	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cock	det
18	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stroked	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hen	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 hen	det
21	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cock	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 scratched	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 scratched	cc
24	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stepped	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cow	det
26	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cow	amod
27	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scratched	obj
28	between	between	ADP	_	30 horns	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 horns	nmod:poss
30	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 cow	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	step up	past	the maiden		the stove	then	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to stove=Destination
2	lie	past · progressive	the animals				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stroke	past	the maiden not said here	the cock and the hen			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Experiencer
4	scratch	past	the maiden not said here	the brindled cow	stove's horns		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent cow=Patient between horn=Location

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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