The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 77

At last, however, the sheep seemed tired of running about, and then the youth managed to gather them together, and drove them, as before, straight to his father’s house.

Who acts: sheep, youth · What happens: seem, run about, manage, gather, drive · To what, where: last, sheep, house

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 (sheep, youth), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 last	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 seemed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 seemed	nsubj
8	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seemed	xcomp
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 running	mark
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tired	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 running	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 managed	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 managed	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 managed	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 managed	nsubj
18	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 gather	mark
20	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 managed	xcomp
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gather	obj
22	together	together	ADV	_	20 gather	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 drove	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 drove	cc
25	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seemed	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 drove	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 before	punct
28	as	as	ADP	_	29 before	case
29	before	before	ADV	_	25 drove	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 house	punct
31	straight	straight	ADV	_	36 house	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 house	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 house	nmod:poss
35	’s	's	PART	_	34 father	case
36	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 drove	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the sheep		last		however, tired property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	run about	gerund	the sheep not said here				about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	manage	past	the youth			then		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	gather	to-infinitive	the youth not said here	sheep			together property	vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
5	drive	past	the sheep not said here	sheep	youth's father's house		before property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=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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