English Fairy Tales, The Old Woman and Her Pig, sentence 35
As soon as the cow had eaten the hay, she gave the old woman the milk; and away she went with it in a saucer to the cat.
Who acts: cow · What happens: eat, give, go · To what, where: cow, milk, old woman, saucer
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Old Woman and Her Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 gave | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 eaten | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cow | det |
| 5 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 eaten | aux |
| 7 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 gave | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hay | det |
| 9 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 eaten | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 eaten | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | iobj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 milk | det |
| 17 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 went | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 went | cc |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 went | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | nsubj |
| 22 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 went | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 saucer | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 saucer | det |
| 27 | saucer | saucer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 cat | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cat | det |
| 30 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 went | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect · passive | the cow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past | cow | the milk | the old woman | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient milk=Theme | ||
| 3 | go | past | cow | a saucer | with hay; to the cat; away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cat=Initial_Location |
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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