The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 35

‘I will go back and pick up the other one, and then I shall have a pair of good shoes,’ and he put the sheep on the grass and returned to fetch the shoe.

Who acts: I, shepherd · What happens: go back, pick up, have, put, return, fetch · To what, where: other one, pair, sheep, grass, shoe

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), 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 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 pick	cc
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 have	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 have	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 have	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 have	aux
17	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 pair	det
19	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 have	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 shoes	case
21	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shoes	amod
22	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pair	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 have	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 put	nsubj
27	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sheep	det
29	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	32 grass	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grass	det
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 returned	cc
34	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 put	conj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 fetch	mark
36	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 returned	advcl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shoe	det
38	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fetch	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	go back	future	I				vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	pick up	infinitive	I not said here	the other one			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
3	have	shall	I	a pair of good shoes		then	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient
4	put	past	shepherd	the sheep	the grass		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme on grass=Destination
5	return	past	shepherd not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	fetch	to-infinitive	shepherd not said here	the shoe			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=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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