The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 106

The young man brought the herdsman to the foot of the great rock, but it was so dark you could hardly see.

Who acts: young man, rock, you · What happens: bring, be, see · To what, where: herdsman, foot

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, rock, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 herdsman	det
6	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 foot	det
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 rock	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rock	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rock	amod
13	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 foot	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dark	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 dark	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 dark	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dark	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 dark	advmod
19	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brought	conj
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
21	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
22	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 dark	advcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	the young man	the herdsman	the foot of the great rock		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herdsman=Theme to foot=Destination
2	is	past	rock			dark property	tree rules
3	see	could	you			hardly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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