The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 67

When I was a young lad I had no home and no one to care for me, and I wandered from village to village all over the country with my knapsack on my back; but as soon as I was old enough I took service with a shepherd in the mountains, and helped him for three years.

Who acts: I, young lad · What happens: be, have, care, wander, take, help · To what, where: young lad, home, village, service, mountains, lad

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 (I, young lad), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 lad	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 lad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lad	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lad	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 lad	amod
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 had	nsubj
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 home	det
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 one	det
13	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 home	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 care	mark
15	care	care	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 one	acl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 me	case
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 care	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 wandered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wandered	cc
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 wandered	nsubj
21	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	23 village	case
23	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 village	case
25	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
26	all	all	ADV	_	29 country	advmod
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 country	det
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 knapsack	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 knapsack	nmod:poss
32	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wandered	obl
33	on	on	ADP	_	35 back	case
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 back	nmod:poss
35	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 knapsack	nmod
36	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 took	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 old	cc
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 soon	advmod
39	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	43 old	advmod
40	as	as	ADP	_	43 old	case
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	43 old	nsubj
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 old	cop
43	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 took	advcl
44	enough	enough	ADV	_	43 old	advmod
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 took	nsubj
46	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 had	parataxis
47	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 took	obj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 shepherd	case
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 shepherd	det
50	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 took	obl
51	in	in	ADP	_	53 mountains	case
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 mountains	det
53	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 took	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 helped	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 helped	cc
56	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 took	conj
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 helped	obj
58	for	for	ADP	_	60 years	case
59	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	60 years	nummod
60	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 helped	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	I	a young lad					tree rules
2	have	past	a young lad	no home and no one					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent home=Patient
3	care	to-infinitive	a young lad not said here					for me	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme
4	wander	past	I			village		to village; over the country; with my knapsack on my back	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination
5	is	past	I					enough, old, soon property	tree rules
6	take	past	I	service		the mountains		with a shepherd	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent service=Value in mountain=Location
7	help	past	I not said here		lad		year		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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