The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 68

In the field where the well was, the king’s swineherds and cowherds were feeding their droves, and the prince left Ilonka (for that was her name) in their care.

Who acts: well, prince, that, swineherds · What happens: feed, leave, be, care · To what, where: droves, Ilonka, field

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (well, prince, that, swineherds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 field	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 feeding	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 well	det
6	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feeding	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feeding	aux
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feeding	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 king	det
10	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swineherds	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 king	case
12	swineherds	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feeding	nsubj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cowherds	cc
14	cowherds	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 swineherds	conj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 feeding	aux
16	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 field	acl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 droves	nmod:poss
18	droves	drove	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feeding	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 left	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 prince	det
22	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	nsubj
23	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	Ilonka	Ilonka	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 left	obj
25	(	(	PUNCT	_	30 name	punct
26	for	for	ADP	_	30 name	case
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 name	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 name	cop
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 name	nmod:poss
30	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Ilonka	appos
31	)	)	PUNCT	_	30 name	punct
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 care	case
33	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 care	nmod:poss
34	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	past · progressive	the well	swineherds's droves			vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drove=Recipient
2	leave	past	the prince	Ilonka	the field	in swineherds's care	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ilonka=Theme in field=Location
3	is	past	that			for Ilonka's name	tree rules
4	care		swineherds = swineherd				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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