Grimms' Fairy Tales, Sweetheart Roland, sentence 42

It befell, however, that a shepherd kept his sheep in the field and saw the flower, and as it was so pretty, plucked it, took it with him, and laid it away in his chest.

Who acts: way, shepherd · What happens: befall, keep, see, be, pluck, take · To what, where: sheep, field, flower, way, chest

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Sweetheart Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 befell	nsubj
2	befell	befall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	2 befell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 kept	punct
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 kept	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 shepherd	det
8	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	nsubj
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 befell	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 sheep	nmod:poss
11	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 kept	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 field	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 field	det
14	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 befell	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 flower	det
18	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 plucked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 plucked	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 pretty	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pretty	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 pretty	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 pretty	advmod
25	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	27 plucked	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pretty	punct
27	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 befell	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 plucked	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 took	punct
30	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 plucked	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obj
32	with	with	ADP	_	33 him	case
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 took	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 laid	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 laid	cc
36	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 took	conj
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 laid	obj
38	away	away	ADV	_	36 laid	advmod
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 chest	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 chest	nmod:poss
41	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 laid	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 befell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	befall	past	way			however property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	a shepherd	Roland's sheep	the field		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in field=Location
3	see	past	way not said here	the flower			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flower=Stimulus
4	is	past	way			pretty property	tree rules
5	pluck	past		way			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	take	past		way		with Roland	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
7	lay away	past		way	Roland's chest	away property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in chest=Destination

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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