The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 37

The second brother eagerly swallowed the bait, and that evening the wolf was driven down to the field where the young man kept the sheep which had been left him by his father.

Who acts: second brother, young man, father · What happens: swallow, drive down, keep, leave · To what, where: bait, wolf, field, sheep, man

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 (second brother, young man, father), 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	3 brother	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	nsubj
4	eagerly	eagerly	ADV	_	5 swallowed	advmod
5	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bait	det
7	bait	bait	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swallowed	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 driven	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 driven	cc
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 evening	det
11	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 driven	obl:unmarked
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wolf	det
13	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 driven	nsubj:pass
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 driven	aux:pass
15	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 swallowed	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 driven	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 field	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 field	det
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 driven	obl
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 kept	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
22	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 man	amod
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	nsubj
24	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 field	acl:relcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 sheep	det
26	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kept	obj
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 left	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 left	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 left	aux:pass
30	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 sheep	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	iobj
32	by	by	ADP	_	34 father	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 father	nmod:poss
34	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swallowed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	the second brother	the bait				eagerly property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bait=Patient
2	drive down	past · passive		the wolf		the field	evening		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme to field=Trajectory
3	keep	past	the young man	the sheep					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
4	leave	past · perfect · passive	ram's father	the sheep	man				vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme he=Attribute

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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