The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 43

Just at that moment the old man entered the stable, and sat down to milk the cow himself, but not a drop of milk could he get.

Who acts: old man, maiden · What happens: enter, sit down, get · To what, where: stable, cow, drop

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 (old man, 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	Just	just	ADV	_	8 entered	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 moment	det
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	nsubj
8	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stable	det
10	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 entered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sat	cc
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 entered	conj
14	down	down	ADP	_	13 sat	compound:prt
15	to	to	PART	_	16 milk	mark
16	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 cow	det
18	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 sat	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 get	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 get	cc
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 drop	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 drop	det
24	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 get	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 milk	case
26	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drop	nmod
27	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 get	aux
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 get	nsubj
29	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 entered	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enter	past	the old man	the stable	moment		vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stable=Destination
2	sit down	past	the old man not said here	the cow		maiden obl	tree rules
3	get	could	maiden	a drop of milk			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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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