The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 82

'Well, as I was sauntering over the plain, just now, I noticed a flock of sheep grazing, and some of them had wandered into a little valley quite out of sight of the shepherd.

Who acts: I, sheep · What happens: saunter, notice, graze, wander, sight · To what, where: plain, flock, some, little valley, shepherd · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sheep), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 sauntering	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 sauntering	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 sauntering	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 sauntering	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sauntering	aux
7	sauntering	saunter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 noticed	ccomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 plain	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plain	det
10	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sauntering	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 now	punct
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 now	advmod
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 sauntering	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sauntering	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 noticed	nsubj
16	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 flock	det
18	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 noticed	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 sheep	case
20	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flock	nmod
21	grazing	graze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 sheep	acl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wandered	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 wandered	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	28 wandered	nsubj:pass
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 some	nmod
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 wandered	aux
28	wandered	wander	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 noticed	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	32 valley	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 valley	det
31	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 valley	amod
32	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wandered	obl
33	quite	quite	ADV	_	36 sight	advmod
34	out	out	ADP	_	36 sight	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 sight	case
36	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wandered	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 shepherd	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 shepherd	det
39	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sight	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	saunter	past · progressive	I		the plain	now		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over plain=Trajectory
2	notice	past	I	a flock of sheep				tree rules
3	graze	gerund	sheep not said here					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	wander	past · perfect · passive		some	a little valley		out sight of the shepherd	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory
5	sight			the shepherd				nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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