The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 16

The shepherd, however, was much too frightened to listen, and said that he could not go away and leave his flock alone; but the snake said: “You need not be afraid to leave your flock, no evil shall befall them; but make all the haste you can.”

Who acts: shepherd, snake, You, evil · What happens: be, listen, say, not go away, leave, not be · To what, where: flock, flames, haste · 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, snake, You, evil), 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	9 frightened	parataxis
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 shepherd	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	cop
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 frightened	advmod
9	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 listen	mark
11	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 frightened	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 go	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 go	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 go	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 go	advmod
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 go	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 leave	cc
22	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 go	conj
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 flock	nmod:poss
24	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 leave	obj
25	alone	alone	ADV	_	22 leave	advmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 said	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 said	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snake	det
29	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 said	nsubj
30	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 frightened	conj
31	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
32	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 afraid	punct
33	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 afraid	nsubj
34	need	need	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 afraid	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 afraid	advmod
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 afraid	cop
37	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 said	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 leave	mark
39	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 afraid	xcomp
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 flock	nmod:poss
41	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 leave	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 befall	punct
43	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	44 evil	det
44	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 befall	nsubj
45	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 befall	aux
46	befall	befall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 leave	conj
47	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 befall	obj
48	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 make	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 make	cc
50	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 frightened	conj
51	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	53 haste	det:predet
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 haste	det
53	haste	haste	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 make	obj
54	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	55 can	nsubj
55	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 haste	acl:relcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct
57	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past			frightened, however property	tree rules
2	listen	to-infinitive				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not go away	could	shepherd		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	infinitive	shepherd not said here	shepherd's flock	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past	the snake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
7	not is in a quote	present	You		afraid property	tree rules
8	leave in a quote	to-infinitive	You not said here	your flock		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
9	befall in a quote	shall	no evil	flames = flame		tree rules
10	make in a quote	infinitive		all haste		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset haste=Product

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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