The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 41

The cow had ceased to give milk, and it was too early for the fruit trees to ripen.

Who acts: milk · What happens: cease, give, be, ripen · To what, where: cow, milk

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 (milk), 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	4 ceased	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	aux
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 give	mark
6	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ceased	xcomp
7	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 give	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 early	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 early	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 early	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 early	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 early	advmod
13	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 ceased	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
16	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 trees	compound
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 early	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 ripen	mark
19	ripen	ripen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 trees	acl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cease	past · perfect · passive		the cow		tree rules
2	give	to-infinitive		milk		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
3	is	past	milk		for the fruit trees; early property	tree rules
4	ripen	to-infinitive	milk not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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