The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 22

The sheep was heavy and the man was in no hurry, so he came slowly and the boy knew that he himself could easily get back to his master before the shepherd was even in sight.

Who acts: sheep, man, boy, shepherd · What happens: be, come, know, get back · To what, where: hurry, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sheep, man, boy, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hurry	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hurry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hurry	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 hurry	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 hurry	det
11	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heavy	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	parataxis
16	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 knew	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 boy	det
19	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 knew	nsubj
20	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 came	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 get	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 get	nsubj
23	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	22 he	nmod:unmarked
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 get	aux
25	easily	easily	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
26	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 knew	ccomp
27	back	back	ADV	_	26 get	advmod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 master	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 master	nmod:poss
30	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 back	obl
31	before	before	SCONJ	_	37 sight	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shepherd	det
33	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 sight	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 sight	cop
35	even	even	ADV	_	37 sight	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 sight	case
37	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 get	xcomp
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the sheep		heavy property	tree rules
2	is	past	the man	no hurry		tree rules
3	come	past	man		slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	know	past	the boy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	get back	could	man		easily property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	past	the shepherd	sight		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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