The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 104
He stopped at the sight of a great flock of sheep, which was feeding peacefully on the rich grass.
Who acts: fox, great flock · What happens: stop, feed, sight · To what, where: sight, great flock
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, great flock), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flock | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 flock | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flock | amod |
| 9 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flock | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 feeding | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 feeding | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 feeding | aux |
| 15 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 flock | acl |
| 16 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 15 feeding | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 grass | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 grass | det |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 grass | amod |
| 20 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feeding | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | fox | the sight of a great flock of sheep | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | feed | past · progressive | a great flock of sheep | on the rich grass; peacefully property | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sight | a great flock of sheep | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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