The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 31

Soon the cock and hen began to tuck their heads under their wings, and the brindled cow blinked its eyes, so the maiden said, ‘Shall we not go to rest now?’

Who acts: cock, brindled cow, maiden, we · What happens: begin, tuck, blink, say, not go, rest · To what, where: heads, wings, eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (cock, brindled cow, maiden, we), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 began	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hen	cc
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cock	conj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 tuck	mark
8	tuck	tuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	xcomp
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 heads	nmod:poss
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tuck	obj
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 wings	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 tuck	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 blinked	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blinked	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
17	brindled	brindled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 cow	amod
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 blinked	nsubj
19	blinked	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	conj
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blinked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 said	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	26 said	advmod
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 maiden	det
25	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 said	nsubj
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 began	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
28	‘	'	PUNCT	_	32 go	punct
29	Shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 go	advmod
32	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 said	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 rest	mark
34	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 go	advcl
35	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 rest	advmod
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct
37	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the cock and hen				soon property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	tuck	to-infinitive	the cock and hen not said here	cock's heads	cock's wings			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme under wing=Trajectory
3	blink	past	the brindled cow	head's eyes				vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	the maiden					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	not go	shall	we					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	rest	to-infinitive	we not said here			now		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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