The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 27

In an instant the sheep were scattered all over the meadows, and the prince placed his hawk on the tree, and his pipes on the grass, while he bade his greyhounds lie beside them.

Who acts: prince, greyhounds · What happens: scatter, place, bade, lie · To what, where: sheep, instant, hawk, tree

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 (prince, greyhounds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 scattered	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scattered	nsubj:pass
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scattered	aux:pass
7	scattered	scatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	11 meadows	advmod
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 meadows	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meadows	det
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scattered	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 placed	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prince	det
15	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	nsubj
16	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 scattered	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 hawk	nmod:poss
18	hawk	hawk	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pipes	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pipes	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 pipes	nmod:poss
25	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 placed	obl
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 grass	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pipes	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 bade	punct
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	32 bade	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 bade	nsubj
32	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	conj
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 greyhounds	nmod:poss
34	greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 lie	nsubj
35	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 bade	ccomp
36	beside	beside	ADP	_	37 them	case
37	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 lie	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 scattered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scatter	past · passive		the sheep	a instant	over the meadows	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in instant=Destination
2	place	past	the prince	prince's hawk	the tree	prince's pipes on the grass obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent hawk=Theme on tree=Destination
3	bade	past	prince				tree rules
4	lie	present	prince's greyhounds			beside pipes = pipe	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside they=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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