The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 89

The shepherd felt that if he once removed his eyes off the beast he was a dead man, and in order to keep himself awake he made songs and sang them, and so the night went by.

Who acts: shepherd, night · What happens: feel, remove, be, keep, make, sing · To what, where: eyes, dead man, shepherd, songs

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 (shepherd, night), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 removed	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 removed	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 removed	nsubj
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 removed	advmod
8	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	advcl
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 removed	obj
11	off	off	ADP	_	13 beast	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beast	det
13	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 man	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 man	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 man	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 removed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 keep	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 keep	cc
21	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 keep	mark
22	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 in	fixed
23	to	to	PART	_	24 keep	mark
24	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 felt	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 keep	obj
26	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 keep	xcomp
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 keep	ccomp
29	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 made	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 sang	cc
31	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sang	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 went	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 went	cc
35	so	so	ADV	_	38 went	advmod
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 night	det
37	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 went	nsubj
38	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 felt	conj
39	by	by	ADP	_	38 went	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the shepherd			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	remove	past	shepherd	shepherd's eyes	once property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
3	is a	past	shepherd	a dead man	off the beast	tree rules
4	keep	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	shepherd	awake property	tree rules
5	make	past	shepherd	songs		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Product
6	sing speech: express	past	shepherd not said here	eyes = eye		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
7	go by	past	the night			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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