The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 15

He thought directly of the puma, and ran to accuse him of having eaten the sheep.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: think, run, accuse, eat · To what, where: shepherd, sheep

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	directly	directly	ADV	_	6 puma	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 puma	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 puma	det
6	puma	puma	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thought	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ran	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 thought	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 accuse	mark
11	accuse	accuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ran	xcomp
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 accuse	obj
13	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 eaten	mark
14	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 eaten	aux
15	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 accuse	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sheep	det
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 eaten	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	shepherd		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	past	shepherd not said here		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	accuse	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	shepherd	vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	eat	gerund · perfect	shepherd not said here	the sheep	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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 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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