The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 38

When the shepherd reached the farmhouse that night he told his tale to his master, who scolded him for being stupid and careless, and bade him go the next day to the mountain and fetch him a kid, and he would send that as a wedding gift.

Who acts: shepherd, master · What happens: reach, tell, scold, be, go, fetch · To what, where: farmhouse, tale, shepherd, bade, mountain, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (shepherd, master), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 reached	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	nsubj
4	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmhouse	det
6	farmhouse	farmhouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obj
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 night	det
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reached	obl:unmarked
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tale	nmod:poss
12	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 master	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 master	nmod:poss
15	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scolded	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 scolded	nsubj
18	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 master	acl:relcl
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 scolded	obj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 stupid	case
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 stupid	cop
22	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 scolded	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 careless	cc
24	careless	careless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stupid	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 go	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 go	cc
27	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bade	obj
29	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 told	ccomp
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
31	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 day	amod
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl:unmarked
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 mountain	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 mountain	det
35	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 go	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fetch	cc
37	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 go	conj
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fetch	obj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 kid	det
40	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fetch	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 send	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 send	cc
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 send	nsubj
44	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 send	aux
45	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 fetch	conj
46	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	45 send	obj
47	as	as	ADP	_	50 gift	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 gift	det
49	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 gift	compound
50	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 send	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the shepherd	the farmhouse			night		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent farmhouse=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	shepherd	shepherd's tale				to shepherd's master	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient clause=Topic
3	scold	past	shepherd's master	shepherd					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	is	gerund						stupid property	tree rules
5	be								tree rules
6	go	present		bade		the mountain	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
7	fetch	infinitive		a kid	shepherd				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary kid=Theme
8	send	would	shepherd	that				as a wedding gift	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
9	tell		shepherd						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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