The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 34

When he got back to his sheep he found the flock grazing peacefully, and as he was very tired he laid himself down by them to rest a little.

Who acts: shepherd, flock · What happens: get back, find, graze, be, lay down, rest · To what, where: flock, shepherd, little

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, flock), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 got	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 sheep	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 sheep	nmod:poss
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj
9	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sheep	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flock	det
11	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 found	obj
12	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 flock	acl
13	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	12 grazing	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tired	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 tired	cc
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 tired	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tired	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	cop
19	very	very	ADV	_	20 tired	advmod
20	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	parataxis
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	nsubj
22	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 tired	ccomp
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 laid	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 laid	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 laid	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 rest	mark
28	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 laid	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 little	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 rest	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get back	past	shepherd		to shepherd's sheep result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result
2	find	past	shepherd	the flock		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Topic
3	graze	gerund	the flock not said here		peacefully property	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	shepherd		tired property	tree rules
5	lay down	past	shepherd	shepherd	by birds = bird	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme by they=Destination
6	rest	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	a little		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location little=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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