The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 13

The shepherd trembled with fright, expecting every instant to be stung to death, and said: “What an unlucky man I am!

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: tremble, expect, sting, say, be · To what, where: shepherd, instant, unlucky man · 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), 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	17 said	nsubj
3	trembled	tremble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 shepherd	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 fright	case
5	fright	fright	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trembled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 expecting	punct
7	expecting	expect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 trembled	advcl
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 instant	det
9	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expecting	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	12 stung	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 stung	aux:pass
12	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 expecting	advcl
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 death	case
14	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stung	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 man	punct
20	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	23 man	det:predet
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	unlucky	unlucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 man	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 man	cop
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tremble	participle		the shepherd not said here	with fright	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	expect	gerund		every instant		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instant=Theme
3	sting	to-infinitive · passive			to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	say speech: express	past	the shepherd			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	present	the shepherd = shepherd	what unlucky man		tree rules

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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