The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 113
So ended the shepherd’s tale; and the landlord who was listening with the rest, said shrewdly:
Who acts: landlord, shepherd · What happens: end, listen, say, tell · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (landlord, 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 | _ | 2 ended | advmod |
| 2 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 shepherd | det |
| 4 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tale | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 shepherd | case |
| 6 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ended | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 landlord | det |
| 10 | landlord | landlord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 listening | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 listening | aux |
| 13 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 landlord | acl:relcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 listening | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 landlord | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ended | conj |
| 19 | shrewdly | shrewdly | ADV | _ | 18 said | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the shepherd's tale | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tale=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | listen | past · progressive | the landlord | with the rest | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the landlord | shrewdly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell | the shepherd | nom tale «communication 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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