The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 9
The shepherd turned hot and cold by turns, but he still persisted:
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: turn, persist
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 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cold | cc |
| 6 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hot | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 turns | case |
| 8 | turns | turn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 persisted | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 persisted | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 persisted | nsubj |
| 12 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 persisted | advmod |
| 13 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 persisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | the shepherd | by turns; hot property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by turn=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | persist | past | shepherd | still | vn exist-47.1 «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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