The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 16

I am hungry, so come with me to the shepherd who is sitting over there, and we will ask him to sell us one of his sheep.'

Who acts: I, shepherd, we · What happens: be, come, sit over, ask, sell · To what, where: shepherd, one, us

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, shepherd, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hungry	parataxis
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 shepherd	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shepherd	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 sitting	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 sitting	aux
14	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 shepherd	acl:relcl
15	over	over	ADV	_	16 there	advmod
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 sitting	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ask	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ask	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 ask	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 ask	aux
21	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 ask	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 sell	mark
24	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 ask	xcomp
25	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 sell	iobj
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 sell	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sheep	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sheep	nmod:poss
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 one	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hungry	punct
31	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I				hungry property	tree rules
2	come	infinitive					with me; to the shepherd	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Initial_Location
3	sit over	present · progressive	the shepherd			there		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	future	we		shepherd			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	sell not said to happen	to-infinitive	we not said here	one of shepherd's sheep	us			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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 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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