The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 70

Every one said it except the shepherd with the staring eyes, and he would not say it.

Who acts: one, shepherd · What happens: say, not say · To what, where: Health · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obj
5	except	except	ADP	_	7 shepherd	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherd	det
7	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 eyes	det
10	staring	staring	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 eyes	compound
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shepherd	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 say	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 say	advmod
17	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	parataxis
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	every one	Health				except the shepherd with the staring eyes	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	not say speech: assert	would	shepherd	Health					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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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