English Fairy Tales, Mr. Vinegar, sentence 37
So the beautiful red cow was given for the bagpipes.
What happens: give · To what, where: beautiful red cow
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Vinegar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 given | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 3 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cow | amod |
| 4 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cow | amod |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 given | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 given | aux:pass |
| 7 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 bagpipes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bagpipes | det |
| 10 | bagpipes | bagpipe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 given | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 given | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the beautiful red cow | for the bagpipes | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme for bagpipe=Asset |
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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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