The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 36

Then the Shifty Lad put on his shoes, and, picking up the sheep, carried it home.

Who acts: Shifty Lad · What happens: put, pick up, carry · To what, where: shoes, sheep, pair

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 (Shifty Lad), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lad	det
3	Shifty	shifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Lad	amod
4	Lad	Lad	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 shoes	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shoes	nmod:poss
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 put	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carried	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 carried	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picking	punct
12	picking	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 carried	ccomp
13	up	up	ADP	_	12 picking	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sheep	det
15	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 picking	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picking	punct
17	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 carried	obj
19	home	home	ADV	_	17 carried	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Shifty Lad		Lad's shoes	then		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Destination
2	pick up	gerund		the sheep				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Topic
3	carry	past	the Shifty Lad not said here	pair			home property	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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