English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 26

And the woman was trying to get her cow to go up a ladder to the grass, and the poor thing durst not go.

Who acts: woman, cow, poor thing · What happens: try, get, go up, not go · To what, where: cow, ladder

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, cow, poor thing), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 trying	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 trying	aux
5	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	xcomp
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cow	nmod:poss
9	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 go	compound:prt
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ladder	det
14	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 thing	det
21	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 thing	amod
22	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	nsubj
23	durst	durst	ADV	_	25 go	advmod
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 go	advmod
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 trying	parataxis
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 trying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	the woman			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the woman not said here	woman's cow		tree rules
3	go up	to-infinitive	woman's cow not said here	a ladder	to the grass	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	not go	infinitive	the poor thing		durst property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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