The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 33

So the shepherd set out for home, and on his way through the wood he heard and understood all that was said by the birds, and by every living creature.

Who acts: shepherd, birds · What happens: set out, hear, understand, say · To what, where: way, that · 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, birds), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 set	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	nsubj
4	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 set	compound:prt
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 set	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 heard	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 heard	cc
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
13	through	through	ADP	_	15 wood	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wood	det
15	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 way	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 heard	nsubj
17	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 set	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 understood	cc
19	understood	understand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 heard	conj
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 said	det:predet
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 said	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 said	aux:pass
23	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 understood	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 birds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 birds	det
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 said	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 creature	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 creature	cc
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 creature	case
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 creature	det
31	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 creature	compound
32	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 heard	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	set out	past	the shepherd			for home	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	shepherd		shepherd's way through the wood	by every living creature	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	understand	past	shepherd not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · passive	the birds	that			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic

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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