The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 116

Mercifully, the cow slept through it all, or by her cries she would have awakened the master.

Who acts: cow · What happens: sleep, awaken, cry · To what, where: brain, master

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	Mercifully	mercifully	ADV	_	5 slept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mercifully	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cow	det
4	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slept	nsubj
5	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 slept	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 it	det
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 awakened	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 awakened	cc
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 cries	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 cries	nmod:poss
13	cries	cry	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 awakened	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 awakened	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 awakened	aux
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 awakened	aux
17	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 slept	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 master	det
19	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 awakened	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	the cow	brain	mercifully property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	awaken	would · perfect	cow	the master	by cow's cries	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location master=Theme
3	cry		cow			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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