The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 106

So the guards left him alone and he stuck up his long stick near the well, hung his cloak round the stick and put his hat on the top.

Who acts: guards, shepherd · What happens: leave, stick up, hang, put · To what, where: shepherd, long stick, well, cloak, hat, top

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (guards, shepherd), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 guards	det
3	guards	guard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	obj
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	4 left	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stuck	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stuck	nsubj
9	stuck	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 stuck	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stick	nmod:poss
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stick	amod
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obj
14	near	near	ADP	_	16 well	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 well	det
16	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stuck	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hung	punct
18	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	parataxis
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cloak	nmod:poss
20	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 stick	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 stick	det
23	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hung	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hung	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 hat	nmod:poss
27	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 top	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 top	det
30	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the guards	shepherd		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	stick up	past	shepherd	shepherd's long stick	the well		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stick=Theme near well=Destination
3	hang	past		shepherd's cloak		round the stick	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient
4	put	infinitive		shepherd's hat	the top		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hat=Theme on top=Destination

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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