The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 2

On the outskirts of a village just where the oxen were turned out to pasture, and the pigs roamed about burrowing with their noses among the roots of the trees, there stood a small house.

Who acts: pigs · What happens: turn out, pasture, roam, burrow, stand · To what, where: oxen, outskirts, roots, small house

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigs), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 outskirts	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 outskirts	det
3	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 outskirts	nmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 turned	advmod
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 turned	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 oxen	det
10	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 turned	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	aux:pass
12	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 turned	compound:prt
14	to	to	PART	_	15 pasture	mark
15	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 turned	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 roamed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 roamed	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pigs	det
19	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 roamed	nsubj
20	roamed	roam	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 turned	parataxis
21	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 burrowing	mark
22	burrowing	burrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 roamed	advcl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 noses	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 noses	nmod:poss
25	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 burrowing	obl
26	among	among	ADP	_	28 roots	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 roots	det
28	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 burrowing	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 trees	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 trees	det
31	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 roots	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 stood	punct
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 stood	expl
34	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 roamed	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 house	det
36	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 house	amod
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stood	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn out	past · passive		the oxen	the outskirts of a village		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	pasture	to-infinitive					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	roam	past	the pigs				vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	burrow	gerund	the pigs not said here		the roots of the trees	with pigs's noses	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among root=Location
5	stand	past	the pigs not said here	a small house	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

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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