The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 104

When the shepherd reached the place he laid, as before, his pipes on the grass and bade the greyhounds sit beside them, while the hawk he perched on the branch of the tree.

Who acts: shepherd, pipes, hawk · What happens: reach, lay, sit, perch · To what, where: place, branch

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, pipes, hawk), 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	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 place	det
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 laid	nsubj
8	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sit	punct
10	as	as	ADP	_	11 before	case
11	before	before	ADV	_	22 sit	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pipes	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 pipes	nmod:poss
14	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sit	nsubj
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 grass	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 grass	det
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pipes	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 bade	cc
19	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 grass	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 greyhounds	det
21	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sit	nsubj
22	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 laid	parataxis
23	beside	beside	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sit	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 perched	punct
26	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 perched	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 hawk	det
28	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perched	nsubj
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 perched	nsubj
30	perched	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sit	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 branch	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 branch	det
33	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 perched	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 branch	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the shepherd	the place			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	lay	past	shepherd				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	sit	present	shepherd's pipes on the grass and bade			beside greyhounds = greyhound	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=Location
4	perch	past	the hawk		the branch of the tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location

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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