The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 68

One autumn evening as we drove the flock homeward ten sheep were missing, and the master bade me go and seek them in the forest.

Who acts: we, ten sheep, master · What happens: drive, be, bade, go, seek · To what, where: flock homeward, me, sheep, forest

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 (we, ten sheep, master), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
2	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 evening	compound
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obl:unmarked
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 drove	mark
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 drove	nsubj
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 homeward	det
8	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 homeward	compound
9	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obj
10	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sheep	nummod
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 missing	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 missing	cop
13	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 homeward	acl:relcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bade	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bade	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 master	det
17	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bade	nsubj
18	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drove	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 bade	obj
20	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 bade	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seek	cc
22	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 go	conj
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 seek	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 forest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 forest	det
26	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 seek	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	past	we	the flock homeward		evening		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Theme
2	is	past	ten sheep	the flock homeward not said here			missing property	tree rules
3	bade	past	the master	me				tree rules
4	go	infinitive	the master not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	infinitive	the master not said here	sheep	the forest			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in forest=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: «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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