The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 110

In his rambles he came to the farmyard, where a beautiful white horse had a stall to itself; in another was a black cow with two white-faced calves, while the clucking of geese, ducks, and hens reached him from a distance.

Who acts: door, beautiful white horse, hens · What happens: come, have, be, cluck, reach, ramble · To what, where: rambles, stall, door

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (door, beautiful white horse, hens), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 rambles	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 rambles	nmod:poss
3	rambles	ramble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 farmyard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 farmyard	det
8	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 had	advmod
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 horse	det
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
13	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 horse	amod
14	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 stall	det
17	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 itself	case
19	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 had	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 cow	punct
21	in	in	ADP	_	26 cow	case
22	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	26 cow	det
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 cow	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
25	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cow	amod
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 had	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	32 calves	case
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 calves	nummod
29	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 faced	amod
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 white	punct
31	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 calves	amod
32	calves	calf	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 cow	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 clucking	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	36 clucking	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 clucking	det
36	clucking	cluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 had	advcl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 geese	case
38	geese	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 clucking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 ducks	punct
40	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 geese	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 reached	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 reached	cc
43	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 reached	nsubj
44	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 reached	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	48 distance	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 distance	det
48	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 reached	obl
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	door			door's rambles	to the farmyard	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to farmyard=Initial_Location
2	have	past	a beautiful white horse	a stall	stall			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stall=Patient
3	is	past					in another black cow; with two faced calves	tree rules
4	cluck	gerund	a beautiful white horse not said here				of geese and ducks	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	reach	past	hens	door			from a distance	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme from distance=Source
6	ramble		door					nom ramble «act transitive»: 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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