The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 74
And he opened the gate of the fold, where the sheep had been all night, and drove them out into the meadow.
Who acts: youth, sheep · What happens: open, be, drive out · To what, where: gate, night, sheep, meadow
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 (youth, sheep), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 opened | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gate | det |
| 5 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 opened | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 fold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fold | det |
| 8 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gate | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 night | punct |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 night | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sheep | det |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 night | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 night | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 night | cop |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fold | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drove | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 drove | cc |
| 19 | drove | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 opened | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drove | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 drove | compound:prt |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 meadow | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 meadow | det |
| 24 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drove | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | youth | the gate of the fold | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | past · perfect | the sheep | all night | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive out | past | youth not said here | sheep | the meadow | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme into meadow=Trajectory |
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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