The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 12

‘If the slim yellow dog of the greenwood were only here, he would soon have that sheep,’ cried the king; and as he spoke, the slim yellow dog appeared from the forest, with the sheep in his mouth.

Who acts: slim yellow dog, dog, sheep · What happens: be, have, cry, speak, appear · To what, where: sheep, king, forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (slim yellow dog, dog, 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	_	17 have	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	12 here	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 dog	det
4	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
5	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 here	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 greenwood	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 greenwood	det
9	greenwood	greenwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 here	cop
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 here	advmod
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 have	advcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 here	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
16	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 have	advmod
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 cried	ccomp
18	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 sheep	det
19	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 have	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
22	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 king	det
24	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cried	obj
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 appeared	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 appeared	cc
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	29 spoke	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 spoke	nsubj
29	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 appeared	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 spoke	punct
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 dog	det
32	slim	slim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dog	amod
33	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 dog	amod
34	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 appeared	nsubj
35	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 cried	conj
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 forest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 forest	det
38	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 appeared	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 sheep	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	42 sheep	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 sheep	det
42	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 appeared	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 mouth	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 mouth	nmod:poss
45	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 sheep	nmod
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the slim yellow dog of the greenwood			here property	tree rules
2	have	would	dog	that sheep		soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient
3	cry speech: express	past		the king			tree rules
4	speak speech: other	past	sheep				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	appear	past	the slim yellow dog		the forest	with the sheep in sheep's mouth	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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