The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 7
One day, whilst herding his flock, this shepherd heard a hissing sound, coming out of the forest near by, which he could not account for.
Who acts: One day, shepherd · What happens: herd, hear, hiss, come out · To what, where: flock, hissing sound, forest
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 (One day, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 herding | punct |
| 4 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 5 herding | mark |
| 5 | herding | herd | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 day | acl |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flock | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 herding | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 shepherd | det |
| 10 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 sound | det |
| 13 | hissing | hiss | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 sound | amod |
| 14 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 coming | punct |
| 16 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 heard | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 21 | near | near | ADV | _ | 16 coming | advmod |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 account | case |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 account | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 account | nsubj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 account | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 account | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 account | advmod |
| 28 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 coming | obl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 account | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | gerund | One day not said here | man's flock | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent flock=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | this shepherd | a hissing sound | day | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | hiss | gerund | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | come out | gerund | this shepherd not said here | the forest | by account; near property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient forest=Result |
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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