The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 44

And when the wedding was over he told his father-in-law, the herdsman, what he had done with the sheep, and pigs, and cattle.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: cattle, pigs, father · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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	_	8 told	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 over	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wedding	det
4	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 over	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 over	cop
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 told	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 told	nsubj
8	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 told	iobj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 law	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 law	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 in	punct
14	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 herdsman	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 herdsman	det
17	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 father	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 done	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 done	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 father	appos
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 sheep	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 sheep	det
25	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 done	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pigs	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pigs	cc
28	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	iobj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cattle	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cattle	cc
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 told	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man	cattle	pigs				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent father=Recipient pig=Topic
2	do	past · perfect	man	man's father in law and the herdsman				with the sheep	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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