The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 23

‘I will wager,’ he cried, as he pushed quickly through the bushes which hid the cabin--‘I will wager that I will steal the sheep from the man that is coming before he passes here.’

Who acts: I, shepherd, bushes, man · What happens: wager, cry, push, hide, steal, come · To what, where: bushes, cabin, sheep

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 (I, shepherd, bushes, man), 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	_	4 wager	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 wager	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wager	aux
4	wager	wager	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cried	nsubj
8	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wager	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pushed	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 pushed	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pushed	nsubj
12	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cried	conj
13	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	12 pushed	advmod
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 bushes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bushes	det
16	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pushed	obl
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 hid	nsubj
18	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 bushes	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 cabin	det
20	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 hid	obj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	25 wager	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 wager	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 wager	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 wager	aux
25	wager	wager	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pushed	advcl
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 steal	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 steal	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 steal	aux
29	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 wager	advcl
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sheep	det
31	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 steal	obj
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 man	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 man	det
34	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 steal	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 coming	nsubj
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 coming	aux
37	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 man	acl:relcl
38	before	before	SCONJ	_	40 passes	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 passes	nsubj
40	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 steal	advcl
41	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	40 passes	advmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 wager	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wager	future	I				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	shepherd				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	push	past	shepherd		the bushes	quickly property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through bush=Trajectory
4	hide	past	the bushes	the cabin			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cabin=Patient
5	wager	future	I				vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	steal	future	I	the sheep		from the man	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme from man=Source
7	come	present · progressive	the man				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	pass	present	shepherd		here		vn occur-48.3-1 «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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