The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 17

One day, when we was wandering about he beheld a nice fat sheep, which was cropping the grass and seemed quite contented with her lot.

Who acts: we, jackal, nice fat sheep · What happens: wonder, behold, crop, seem, content · To what, where: nice fat sheep, grass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, jackal, nice fat 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wandering	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wandering	advmod
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 wandering	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandering	aux
7	wandering	wonder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 beheld	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 beheld	nsubj
10	beheld	behold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wandering	ccomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
12	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sheep	amod
13	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sheep	compound
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 beheld	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cropping	punct
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 cropping	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 cropping	aux
18	cropping	crop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 sheep	acl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 grass	det
20	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cropping	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 seemed	cc
22	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 beheld	conj
23	quite	quite	ADV	_	24 contented	advmod
24	contented	content	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 seemed	xcomp
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 lot	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 lot	nmod:poss
27	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 contented	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wandering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past · progressive	we		day		vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	behold	past	jackal	a nice fat sheep			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus
3	crop	past · progressive	a nice fat sheep	the grass			vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
4	seem	past	jackal not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	content	participle	jackal not said here			with Contes's lot	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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