The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 84

When you are leading out your flocks to pasture, they will all run straight to these meadows, and none that have gone there have ever been known to come back.

Who acts: you, leading, flocks · What happens: lead out, pasture, run, go, know, come back · To what, where: flocks, meadows, none

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 (you, leading, flocks), 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	4 leading	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 leading	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 leading	aux
4	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pasture	csubj
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 leading	compound:prt
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flocks	nmod:poss
7	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 leading	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 pasture	mark
9	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 run	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 run	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 run	aux
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
14	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pasture	conj
15	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 meadows	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 meadows	case
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 meadows	det
18	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 run	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 known	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 known	cc
21	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	29 known	nsubj:pass
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 gone	nsubj
23	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 gone	aux
24	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 none	acl:relcl
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 gone	advmod
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 known	aux
27	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 known	advmod
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 known	aux:pass
29	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 run	advcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 come	mark
31	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 known	xcomp
32	back	back	ADV	_	31 come	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pasture	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	present · progressive	you	your flocks				vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
2	pasture	to-infinitive	leading					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	run	future	flocks = flock	this meadows			all property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme meadow=Trajectory
4	go	present · perfect			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	present · perfect · passive		none		ever		tree rules
6	come back	to-infinitive						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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