More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 37

So he stood a little while to consider: at last he thought he recollected it, and began to repeat:

Who acts: sheep · What happens: stand, consider, think, recollect, begin, repeat · To what, where: last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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	_	3 stood	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 while	amod
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 consider	mark
8	consider	consider	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stood	advcl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 thought	punct
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 last	case
11	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thought	obl
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 thought	nsubj
13	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 recollected	nsubj
15	recollected	recollect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 thought	ccomp
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 recollected	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 began	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 began	cc
19	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 repeat	mark
21	repeat	repeat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 began	xcomp
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	stand	past	sheep			while	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	consider	to-infinitive	sheep not said here				vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	past	sheep		last		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	recollect	past	sheep	last			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	begin	past	sheep not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	repeat	to-infinitive	sheep not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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