The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 53

Were there no stones on the hillside that you should run back to get them, you senseless one?' he cried; 'you are not fit to herd sheep.

Who acts: hillside, you, stone · What happens: run back, get, be, cry, not be, herd · To what, where: hillsides, senseless one, sheep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hillside, you, stone), 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	Were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 one	cop
2	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Were	advmod
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 stones	det
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Were	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 hillside	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hillside	det
7	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stones	nmod
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 run	nsubj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 run	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 run	aux
11	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hillside	acl:relcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 run	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 run	advcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 one	nsubj
18	senseless	senseless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 one	amod
19	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 cried	ccomp
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 cried	nsubj
23	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 fit	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	29 fit	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 fit	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 fit	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 fit	advmod
29	fit	fit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 cried	parataxis
30	to	to	PART	_	31 herd	mark
31	herd	herd	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 fit	advcl
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 herd	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run back	should	the hillside			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	the hillside not said here	hillsides = hillside		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	is a	past	you	senseless one		tree rules
4	cry speech: express	past	stone			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	not is	present	you		fit property	tree rules
6	herd	to-infinitive	you not said here	sheep		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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