The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 95

The wild boars had not been fed for a week, and when the shepherd was thrust into their don they rushed at him to tear him to pieces.

Who acts: shepherd, boars · What happens: not feed, be, rush, tear · To what, where: wild boars, thrust, don, shepherd

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, boars), 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	3 boars	det
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boars	amod
3	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fed	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fed	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fed	advmod
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 fed	aux:pass
7	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 week	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 week	det
10	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 thrust	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 thrust	cc
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 thrust	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shepherd	det
15	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrust	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 thrust	cop
17	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fed	obl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 don	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 don	nmod:poss
20	don	don	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 thrust	nmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rushed	nsubj
22	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 don	acl:relcl
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 rushed	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 tear	mark
26	tear	tear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 rushed	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 tear	obj
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 pieces	case
29	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 tear	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not feed	past · perfect · passive		the wild boars		week		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient
2	is a	past	the shepherd	thrust	boars's don			tree rules
3	rush	past	boars = boar	boars's don not said here			at shepherd	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent don=Theme at he=Trajectory
4	tear	to-infinitive	boars = boar not said here	shepherd			to pieces result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to piece=Result

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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