The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 19

Now a rich farmer who lived up near the moor thought that nothing was so useful to a young couple when they first began to keep house as a fine fat sheep, so he bade his shepherd go off to the mountain where the flock were feeding, and bring him back the best he could find.

Who acts: rich farmer, nothing, Gallows, farmer, flock · What happens: live up, think, be, begin, keep, bade · To what, where: moor, house, shepherd, best, flock

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich farmer, nothing, Gallows, farmer), 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	11 thought	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
3	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 farmer	amod
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 thought	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 farmer	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 lived	compound:prt
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 moor	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moor	det
10	moor	moor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
11	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 useful	mark
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	16 useful	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 useful	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 useful	advmod
16	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thought	ccomp
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 couple	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 couple	det
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 couple	amod
20	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 useful	obl
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 began	advmod
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 began	nsubj
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 began	advmod
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 useful	advcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 keep	mark
26	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 keep	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	32 sheep	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 sheep	det
30	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 sheep	amod
31	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 sheep	compound
32	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 keep	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 bade	punct
34	so	so	ADV	_	36 bade	advmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 bade	nsubj
36	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 thought	conj
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 shepherd	nmod:poss
38	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 bade	obj
39	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 bade	xcomp
40	off	off	ADP	_	39 go	compound:prt
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 mountain	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mountain	det
43	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 go	obl
44	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	48 feeding	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 flock	det
46	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 feeding	nsubj
47	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 feeding	aux
48	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	43 mountain	acl:relcl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 bring	punct
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 bring	cc
51	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 thought	conj
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 bring	obj
53	back	back	ADV	_	51 bring	advmod
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 best	det
55	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	51 bring	obj
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 find	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 find	aux
58	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 best	acl:relcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live up	past	a rich farmer			the moor			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near moor=Location
2	think speech: other	past	a rich farmer				now		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	nothing					to a young couple; useful property	tree rules
4	begin	past	Gallows					first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	keep	to-infinitive	Gallows not said here	house				as a fine fat sheep	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
6	bade	past	farmer	farmer's shepherd					tree rules
7	go off	infinitive	farmer not said here					to the mountain	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
8	feed	past · progressive	the flock						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
9	bring back	infinitive	a rich farmer not said here	the best	flock				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination good=Theme
10	find	could	flock						vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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