The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 14
The shepherd gaped and wondered and was quite dazzled, but he still said:
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: gape, wonder, dazzle, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gaped | nsubj |
| 3 | gaped | gape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wondered | cc |
| 5 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gaped | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dazzled | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dazzled | aux:pass |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 dazzled | advmod |
| 9 | dazzled | dazzle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wondered | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 14 said | advmod |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gaped | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 gaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gape | past | the shepherd | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | the shepherd not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | dazzle | past · passive | the shepherd not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | shepherd | still | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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