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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 77

He listened in silence, and then returned to the castle, where he put on a suit of shepherd’s clothes, and taking a staff in his hand, he went forth to seek a place as tender of sheep.

Who acts: Dragon · What happens: listen, return, put, take, go, seek · To what, where: suit, staff, hand, place, sheep

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 (Dragon), 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

nsubjcaseoblpunctccadvmodconjcasedetoblpunctadvmodnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblcasenmod:posscasenmodpunctccadvcldetobjcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodmarkxcompdetobjcaseoblcasenmodpunctrootHePRONlistenedVERBinADPsilenceNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJthenADVreturnedVERBtoADPtheDETcastleNOUN,PUNCTwhereADVhePRONputVERBonADPaDETsuitNOUNofADPshepherdNOUN’sPARTclothesNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJtakingVERBaDETstaffNOUNinADPhisPRONhandNOUN,PUNCThePRONwentVERBforthADVtoPARTseekVERBaDETplaceNOUNasADPtenderNOUNofADPsheepNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 listenednsubj
2listenedlistenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3ininADP_4 silencecase
4silencesilenceNOUNNumber=Sing2 listenedobl
5,,PUNCT_8 returnedpunct
6andandCCONJ_8 returnedcc
7thenthenADVPronType=Dem8 returnedadvmod
8returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 listenedconj
9totoADP_11 castlecase
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 castledet
11castlecastleNOUNNumber=Sing8 returnedobl
12,,PUNCT_15 putpunct
13wherewhereADVPronType=Rel15 putadvmod
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 putnsubj
15putputVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 castleacl:relcl
16ononADP_18 suitcase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 suitdet
18suitsuitNOUNNumber=Sing15 putobl
19ofofADP_22 clothescase
20shepherdshepherdNOUNNumber=Sing22 clothesnmod:poss
21’s'sPART_20 shepherdcase
22clothesclothesNOUNNumber=Ptan18 suitnmod
23,,PUNCT_25 takingpunct
24andandCCONJ_25 takingcc
25takingtakeVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 listenedadvcl
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 staffdet
27staffstaffNOUNNumber=Sing25 takingobj
28ininADP_30 handcase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 handnmod:poss
30handhandNOUNNumber=Sing25 takingobl
31,,PUNCT_33 wentpunct
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 wentnsubj
33wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 listenedconj
34forthforthADV_33 wentadvmod
35totoPART_36 seekmark
36seekseekVERBVerbForm=Inf33 wentxcomp
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 placedet
38placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing36 seekobj
39asasADP_40 tendercase
40tendertenderNOUNNumber=Sing36 seekobl
41ofofADP_42 sheepcase
42sheepsheepNOUNNumber=Plur40 tendernmod
43..PUNCT_2 listenedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1listenpastDragonin silencevn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme
2returnpastDragon not said herethento the castle resultvn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result
3putpastDragona suit of shepherd's clothesvn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on suit=Destination
4takegerundDragon not said herea staffDragon's handvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent staff=Value in hand=Location
5gopastDragonforth propertyvn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6seekto-infinitiveDragon not said herea placeas tender of sheepvn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
7tendersheepnom tender «possession transitive»: of=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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