The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 18

The shepherd stood still with surprise, but the snake round his neck whistled, and immediately all the arch unwound itself.

Who acts: shepherd, snake, arch · What happens: stand, whistle, unwind · To what, where: arch

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, arch), 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	still	still	ADV	_	3 stood	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 surprise	case
6	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stood	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whistled	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 whistled	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 whistled	nsubj
11	round	round	ADP	_	13 neck	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 neck	nmod:poss
13	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	nmod
14	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 unwound	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 unwound	cc
17	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	18 all	advmod
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 arch	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 arch	det
20	arch	arch	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 unwound	nsubj
21	unwound	unwind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stood	parataxis
22	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 unwound	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the shepherd		still	with surprise	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	whistle	past	the snake round snake's neck				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	unwind	past	all arch	arch			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient

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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