The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 35

The sheep was pretty heavy, but the good man was merciful and staggered along as best he could under his load.

Who acts: sheep, good man · What happens: be, stagger · To what, where: best, load

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 (sheep, good man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 merciful	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 merciful	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 merciful	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 merciful	cop
12	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heavy	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 staggered	cc
14	staggered	stagger	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 merciful	conj
15	along	along	ADV	_	14 staggered	advmod
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 best	advmod
17	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 staggered	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 could	nsubj
19	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 staggered	advcl
20	under	under	ADP	_	22 load	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 load	nmod:poss
22	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 staggered	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sheep			heavy, pretty property	tree rules
2	is	past	the good man			merciful property	tree rules
3	stagger	past	the good man not said here	best	sheep's load	along property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus good=Experiencer

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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