The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 4, sentence 22
Every day she drove the cattle to pasture, and all the time she thought of nothing but her faithless bridegroom.
Who acts: Helena · What happens: drive, pasture, think · To what, where: cattle
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Helena), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drove | nsubj |
| 4 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cattle | det |
| 6 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drove | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pasture | mark |
| 8 | pasture | pasture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 cattle | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thought | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thought | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thought | obl |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 thought | nsubj |
| 15 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drove | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 nothing | case |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 thought | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 bridegroom | cc |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bridegroom | nmod:poss |
| 20 | faithless | faithless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bridegroom | amod |
| 21 | bridegroom | bridegroom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 nothing | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past | Helena | the cattle | day | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cattle=Theme | |||
| 2 | pasture | to-infinitive | Helena not said here | the cattle not said here | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | Helena | time | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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