The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 24

But, after they had gone, the shepherd killed one of his sheep, and stripped off his skin, which he sewed tightly round a greyhound he had with him, and put a cord round its neck.

Who acts: jackals, shepherd, skin · What happens: go, kill, strip off, sew, have, put · To what, where: one, skin, greyhound, cord

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 (jackals, shepherd, skin), 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	_	6 gone	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 gone	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 gone	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 killed	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shepherd	det
9	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 killed	nsubj
10	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	parataxis
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 killed	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 sheep	nmod:poss
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stripped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stripped	cc
17	stripped	strip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 killed	conj
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 stripped	compound:prt
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 skin	nmod:poss
20	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stripped	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sewed	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 sewed	nsubj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sewed	nsubj
24	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 skin	acl:relcl
25	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	24 sewed	advmod
26	round	round	ADP	_	28 greyhound	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 greyhound	det
28	greyhound	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sewed	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 greyhound	acl:relcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	32 him	case
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 put	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 put	cc
35	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	parataxis
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cord	det
37	cord	cord	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obj
38	round	round	ADP	_	40 neck	case
39	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neck	nmod:poss
40	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 put	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	jackals = jackal			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	past	the shepherd	one of shepherd's sheep		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	strip off	past	the shepherd not said here	shepherd's skin		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient
4	sew	past	shepherd's skin		round a greyhound; tightly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme round greyhound=Destination
5	have	past	shepherd	a greyhound not said here	with greyhound	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent greyhound=Patient
6	put	infinitive		a cord	round cord's neck	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent cord=Goal

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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