The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 27
Then she went out and fetched barley and strewed it before the cock and hen, and brought the cow an armful of sweet-smelling hay.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: go out, fetch, strew, bring, smell · To what, where: barley, armful, cow
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), 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 | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 fetched | cc |
| 6 | fetched | fetch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fetched | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strewed | cc |
| 9 | strewed | strew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 strewed | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 cock | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strewed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hen | cc |
| 15 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cock | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cow | det |
| 20 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 armful | det |
| 22 | armful | armful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 hay | case |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hay | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweet | punct |
| 26 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 hay | amod |
| 27 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 armful | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go out | past | maiden | then | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | fetch | past | maiden not said here | barley | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barley=Theme | ||||
| 3 | strew | past | maiden not said here | barley | before the cock and hen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme before cock=Destination | |||
| 4 | bring | past | maiden not said here | a armful of sweet smelling hay | the cow | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent cow=Destination armful=Theme | |||
| 5 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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