The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 30

‘My flock is the nearest,’ observed the eldest brother; ‘we will leave him in the fold for the night, and to-morrow we will decide which pastures will be best for him.’

Who acts: flock, we, pastures · What happens: be, observe, leave, decide · To what, where: eldest brother, ram, fold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, we, pastures), 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	_	6 nearest	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 flock	nmod:poss
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nearest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 nearest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nearest	det
6	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 observed	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 observed	punct
9	observed	observe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nearest	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 brother	det
11	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 observed	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 leave	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 leave	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 leave	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 leave	aux
17	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 nearest	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 leave	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 fold	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fold	det
21	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leave	obl
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 night	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 night	det
24	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leave	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 decide	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 decide	cc
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 morrow	case
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 to	punct
29	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 decide	obl
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 decide	nsubj
31	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 decide	aux
32	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 leave	conj
33	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	34 pastures	det
34	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 best	nsubj
35	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 best	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 best	cop
37	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	32 decide	ccomp
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 him	case
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 best	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 nearest	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 nearest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My flock				near property	tree rules
2	observe	past		the eldest brother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent brother=Topic
3	leave	future	we	ram	the fold	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in fold=Location
4	decide	future	we				to morrow	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	future	which pastures				for ram; good property	tree rules

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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