English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 32

But the woman thought it was easier to get the cow up the ladder than to get the grass down, so she pushed her and coaxed her and got her up, and tied a string round her neck, and passed it down the chimney, and fastened it to her own wrist.

Who acts: woman, cow · What happens: think, be, get up, get down, push, coax · To what, where: cow, grass, woman, string · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 thought	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 easier	expl
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easier	cop
7	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 thought	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 easier	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cow	det
11	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 ladder	det
14	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
15	than	than	SCONJ	_	17 get	mark
16	to	to	PART	_	17 get	mark
17	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 get	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 get	obj
20	down	down	ADP	_	17 get	compound:prt
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 pushed	punct
22	so	so	ADV	_	24 pushed	advmod
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pushed	nsubj
24	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 easier	conj
25	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 pushed	obj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 coaxed	cc
27	coaxed	coax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 pushed	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 coaxed	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 got	cc
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 coaxed	conj
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	obj
32	up	up	ADP	_	30 got	compound:prt
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 tied	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 tied	cc
35	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 string	det
37	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tied	obj
38	round	round	ADP	_	40 neck	case
39	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neck	nmod:poss
40	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 tied	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 passed	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 passed	cc
43	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	parataxis
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 passed	obj
45	down	down	ADP	_	43 passed	compound:prt
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 chimney	det
47	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 passed	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fastened	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 fastened	cc
50	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 fastened	obj
52	to	to	ADP	_	55 wrist	case
53	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 wrist	nmod:poss
54	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 wrist	amod
55	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 fastened	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the woman			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past			easy property	tree rules
3	get up	to-infinitive		the cow	the ladder obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus
4	get down	to-infinitive		the grass		tree rules
5	push	past	cow	woman		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	coax	past	cow not said here	cow		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
7	get up	past	cow not said here	cow		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
8	tie	past	the woman not said here	a string	round cow's neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient
9	pass down	past		grass	the chimney obl	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
10	fasten	past	the woman not said here	grass	to cow's own wrist	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to wrist=Co-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: «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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