The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 20
Then the shepherd went to examine the sleeping stag, and of course he saw the blood.
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: go, examine, see · To what, where: sleeping stag, blood
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 examine | mark |
| 6 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stag | det |
| 8 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stag | compound |
| 9 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 examine | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 15 saw | advmod |
| 13 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 of | fixed |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 blood | det |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the shepherd | then | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | examine | to-infinitive | the shepherd not said here | the sleeping stag | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | shepherd | the blood | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus |
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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