The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 24

Merrily the shepherd blew on his pipes as he marched at the head of his flock, only stopping every now and then to say to the weeping girl at his side:

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: blow, march, stop, say · To what, where: pipes, head, every, weeping girl, side · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Merrily	merrily	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 pipes	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 pipes	nmod:poss
7	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 marched	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 marched	nsubj
10	marched	march	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blew	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 head	det
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 marched	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 flock	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flock	nmod:poss
16	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 head	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopping	punct
18	only	only	ADV	_	19 stopping	advmod
19	stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 marched	advcl
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	19 stopping	obj
21	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stopping	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 then	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 now	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 say	mark
25	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 stopping	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 girl	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 girl	det
28	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 girl	compound
29	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
30	at	at	ADP	_	32 side	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 side	nmod:poss
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 say	obl
33	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the shepherd			shepherd's pipes		merrily property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	march	past	shepherd			the head of shepherd's flock			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at head=Trajectory
3	stop	gerund	shepherd not said here	every			now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality every=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here		the weeping girl	shepherd's side			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to girl=Recipient

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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