The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 96

But the shepherd took a little flute out of the sleeve of his jacket and began to play a merry tune, on which the wild boars first of all shrank shyly away, and then got up on their hind legs and danced gaily.

Who acts: shepherd, wild boars · What happens: take, begin, play, shrink, get up, dance · To what, where: little flute, sleeve, merry tune, hind legs

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, wild 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 took	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 flute	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 flute	amod
7	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 sleeve	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 sleeve	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sleeve	det
11	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 jacket	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 jacket	nmod:poss
14	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleeve	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 began	cc
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 play	mark
18	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tune	det
20	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tune	amod
21	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 play	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shrank	punct
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 shrank	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boars	det
26	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 boars	amod
27	boars	boar	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 shrank	nsubj
28	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	27 boars	advmod
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 all	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 boars	nmod
31	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 play	conj
32	shyly	shyly	ADV	_	33 away	advmod
33	away	away	ADV	_	31 shrank	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 got	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 got	cc
36	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	37 got	advmod
37	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 got	compound:prt
39	on	on	ADP	_	42 legs	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 legs	nmod:poss
41	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 legs	amod
42	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 got	obl
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 danced	cc
44	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 got	conj
45	gaily	gaily	ADV	_	44 danced	advmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the shepherd	a little flute	the sleeve of shepherd's jacket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flute=Theme out sleeve=Initial_Location
2	begin	past	the shepherd not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	play	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	a merry tune				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
4	shrink	past	the wild boars of all				away property	vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	get up	past			boars's hind legs	then		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on leg=Source
6	dance	past					gaily property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «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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