The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 18

Many shepherds have gone to that lake and none have ever returned; but this one has in these two days fought twice with the dragon and has escaped without a wound.

Who acts: Many shepherds, one · What happens: go, have, return, fight, escape · To what, where: lake

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many shepherds, one), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shepherds	amod
2	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lake	case
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 lake	det
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 none	cc
9	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	7 lake	conj
10	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 none	acl:relcl
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 returned	advmod
12	returned	return	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 have	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 has	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 has	cc
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 has	nsubj
17	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	parataxis
18	in	in	ADP	_	21 days	case
19	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 days	det
20	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 days	nummod
21	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fought	obl
22	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 has	parataxis
23	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	22 fought	advmod
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 dragon	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dragon	det
26	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fought	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 escaped	cc
28	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 escaped	aux
29	escaped	escape	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 fought	conj
30	without	without	ADP	_	32 wound	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 wound	det
32	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 escaped	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present · perfect	Many shepherds	that lake			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
2	have	present					tree rules
3	return	participle			ever		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	this one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	fight	past			day	with the dragon; twice property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dragon=Co-Agent
6	escape	present · perfect				without a wound	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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