Fifty Famous Stories Retold, II. the Three Answers., sentence 15

So the shepherd got ready to go at once.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: get, go

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, II. the Three Answers.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	_	4 got	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 got	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 ready	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 go	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the shepherd					ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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