The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 20

And the shepherd chose out the largest and fattest of the sheep and the one with the whitest fleece; then he tied its feet together and put it across his shoulder, for he had a long way to go.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: choose out, tie, put, have, go · To what, where: feet, fleece, shoulder, long way

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 (shepherd), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 chose	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chose	nsubj
4	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 chose	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fattest	det
7	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 fattest	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fattest	cc
9	fattest	fat	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 chose	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 sheep	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sheep	det
12	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fattest	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 one	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 one	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sheep	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 fleece	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fleece	det
18	whitest	white	ADJ	Degree=Sup	19 fleece	amod
19	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 one	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 tied	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 tied	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tied	nsubj
23	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 chose	conj
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 tied	obj
26	together	together	ADV	_	23 tied	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 put	cc
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 tied	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	across	across	ADP	_	32 shoulder	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shoulder	nmod:poss
32	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 had	punct
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 had	case
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 had	nsubj
36	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 tied	conj
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 way	det
38	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 way	amod
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 had	obj
40	to	to	PART	_	41 go	mark
41	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 way	acl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 chose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choose out	past	the shepherd					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tie	past	shepherd	fleece's feet		then	together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
3	put	infinitive	shepherd not said here	fleece	shepherd's shoulder			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal
4	have	past	shepherd	a long way				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient
5	go	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	a long way not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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