The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 27

Now the hour oftenest chosen by this naughty sprite (whom we will call Puck) for performing his pranks was about midnight, just when the shepherds and cowherds, tired out with their long day’s work, were sound asleep.

Who acts: we, shepherds, long day · What happens: choose, call, perform, be, work · To what, where: hour, naughty sprite, pranks · 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 (we, shepherds, long day), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hour	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hour	det
3	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	oftenest	often	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 hour	nmod
5	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hour	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 sprite	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 sprite	det
8	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sprite	amod
9	sprite	sprite	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chosen	obl
10	(	(	PUNCT	_	14 call	punct
11	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 call	obj
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 call	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 call	aux
14	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 sprite	acl:relcl
15	Puck	Puck	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 call	obj
16	)	)	PUNCT	_	15 Puck	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 performing	mark
18	performing	perform	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 midnight	advcl
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 pranks	nmod:poss
20	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 performing	obj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 midnight	cop
22	about	about	ADP	_	23 midnight	case
23	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 call	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 asleep	punct
25	just	just	ADV	_	43 asleep	advmod
26	when	when	SCONJ	_	43 asleep	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shepherds	det
28	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 asleep	nsubj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cowherds	cc
30	cowherds	cowherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shepherds	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tired	punct
32	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shepherds	amod
33	out	out	ADP	_	32 tired	compound:prt
34	with	with	ADP	_	39 work	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 day	nmod:poss
36	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 day	amod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 work	nmod:poss
38	’s	's	PART	_	37 day	case
39	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tired	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 work	punct
41	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 asleep	cop
42	sound	sound	ADV	_	43 asleep	advmod
43	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 midnight	acl:relcl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hour	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	choose	participle		the hour oftenest not said here	by this naughty sprite	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	call	future	we	this naughty sprite		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent whom=Theme puck=Result
3	perform	gerund		thing's pranks		vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prank=Theme
4	is	past	we not said here		about midnight	tree rules
5	is	past	the shepherds and cowherds		asleep, sound property	tree rules
6	work		shepherds's long day			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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