The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 10

The shepherd stood wondering how the poor snake could escape, for the wind was blowing the flames that way, and soon that tree would be burning like the rest.

Who acts: shepherd, poor snake, wind · What happens: stand, wonder, escape, blow, burn · To what, where: flames · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, poor snake, wind), 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 stood	nsubj
3	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stood	xcomp
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 escape	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 snake	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snake	amod
8	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 escape	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 escape	aux
10	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 wondering	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 blowing	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 blowing	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wind	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blowing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 blowing	aux
16	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 escape	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flames	det
18	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 blowing	obj
19	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 way	det
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 blowing	obl:unmarked
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 burning	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 burning	cc
23	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 burning	advmod
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 burning	mark
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burning	compound
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 burning	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 burning	aux
28	burning	burn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stood	advcl
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 rest	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rest	det
31	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 burning	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the shepherd			vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	wonder speech: ask	gerund	the shepherd not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	escape	could	the poor snake			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	blow	past · progressive	the wind	the flames	that way obl:unmarked	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent flame=Patient
5	burn	would · progressive	the shepherd not said here		like the rest; soon property	vn light_emission-43.1 «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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