The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 21

But he always feeds at some distance from the rest of the flock, and it would take me a long time to catch him.'

Who acts: shepherd, it · What happens: feed, take, catch · To what, where: me, shepherd

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 (shepherd, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 feeds	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feeds	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 feeds	advmod
4	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 distance	case
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 distance	det
7	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeds	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 rest	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 distance	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 flock	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flock	det
13	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 take	cc
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feeds	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 take	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 time	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 time	amod
22	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
23	to	to	PART	_	24 catch	mark
24	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 take	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 catch	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feeds	punct
27	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 feeds	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	feed	present	shepherd				at some distance from the rest of the flock; always property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	take	would	it		me	time		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
3	catch	to-infinitive		shepherd				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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