The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 27

He ran fast till he entered a wood through which the shepherd must go, and then he stopped, and taking off one of his shoes smeared it with mud and set it in the path.

Who acts: boy, shepherd, one · What happens: run, enter, go, stop, take off, smear · To what, where: wood, path

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 (boy, shepherd, one), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 ran	advmod
4	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 entered	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 entered	nsubj
6	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 entered	obj
9	through	through	ADP	_	10 which	case
10	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 go	obl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 shepherd	det
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wood	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 stopped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stopped	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 stopped	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stopped	nsubj
19	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taking	cc
22	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 ran	parataxis
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 taking	compound:prt
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 smeared	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 shoes	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoes	nmod:poss
27	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 smeared	obl
28	smeared	smear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taking	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 smeared	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 mud	case
31	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 smeared	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 set	cc
33	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 taking	conj
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 set	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 path	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 path	det
37	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 set	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	boy				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	enter	past	boy	a wood				vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wood=Destination
3	go	must	the shepherd		a wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location
4	stop	past	boy			then		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	take off	gerund						vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	smear	past	one	wood			of boy's shoes; with mud	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with mud=Theme
7	set	infinitive		wood	the path			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in path=Destination

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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