The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 14

In the morning the shepherd went as usual to let the sheep out of the fold, and found one of them missing.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: go, let, find · To what, where: sheep, fold, one

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 morning	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morning	det
3	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shepherd	det
5	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 usual	case
8	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sheep	det
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 let	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 fold	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 fold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fold	det
16	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 found	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 found	cc
19	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 found	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 them	case
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 one	nmod
23	missing	missing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 found	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the shepherd			morning	as usual	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here	the sheep	the fold			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
3	find	past	the shepherd not said here	one of men			missing property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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