The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 42
The cow sighed deeply, and looked at the milkman with fear, but he took no notice, and milked briskly into the pail, till the cow ran dry.
Who acts: cow, maiden · What happens: sigh, look, take, milk, run · To what, where: notice, pail
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, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cow | det |
| 2 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sighed | nsubj |
| 3 | sighed | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 3 sighed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looked | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 looked | cc |
| 7 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | conj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 milkman | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 milkman | det |
| 10 | milkman | milkman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looked | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 fear | case |
| 12 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 milkman | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sighed | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 notice | det |
| 18 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 milked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 milked | cc |
| 21 | milked | milk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 took | conj |
| 22 | briskly | briskly | ADV | _ | 21 milked | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 pail | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pail | det |
| 25 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 milked | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ran | punct |
| 27 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 30 ran | mark |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 cow | det |
| 29 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ran | nsubj |
| 30 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 milked | conj |
| 31 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 ran | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sighed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sigh | past | the cow | deeply property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | look | past | the cow not said here | at the milkman with fear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at milkman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | maiden | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 4 | milk | past | maiden not said here | the pail | briskly property | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | run | past | the cow | dry property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 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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