The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 33
A few minutes after the shepherd arrived, and beheld the second shoe lying on the path.
Who acts: few minutes, second shoe · What happens: arrive, behold, lie · To what, where: second shoe, 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 (few minutes, second shoe), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 minutes | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 minutes | amod |
| 3 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 arrived | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 arrived | nsubj |
| 7 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beheld | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 beheld | cc |
| 10 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 arrived | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shoe | det |
| 12 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 shoe | amod |
| 13 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 beheld | obj |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 shoe | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 path | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 path | det |
| 17 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | a few minutes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | behold | past | a few minutes not said here | the second shoe | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shoe=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the second shoe not said here | the path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on path=Location |
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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