The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 39

But the Shifty Lad was on the look-out, and hid himself in the wood, and the moment the man drew near with the kid on his shoulders began to bleat like a sheep, and no one, not even the sheep’s own mother, could have told the difference.

Who acts: Shifty Lad, man, moment, sheep · What happens: be, hide, draw, begin, bleat, not mother · To what, where: look out, Lad, wood, moment, one, difference · 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 (Shifty Lad, man, moment, sheep), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	10 out	cc
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	10 out	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 out	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 out	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 out	det
8	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 out	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 look	punct
10	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 out	parataxis
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 began	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 began	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 moment	det
21	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 began	nsubj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 man	det
23	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	nsubj
24	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 moment	acl:relcl
25	near	near	ADV	_	24 drew	advmod
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 kid	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kid	det
28	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drew	obl
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 kid	nmod
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 hid	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 bleat	mark
34	bleat	bleat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	like	like	ADP	_	37 sheep	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sheep	det
37	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bleat	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 told	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 told	cc
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 told	nsubj:pass
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 mother	punct
43	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	49 mother	advmod
44	even	even	ADV	_	46 sheep	advmod
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 sheep	det
46	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 mother	nsubj
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 sheep	case
48	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mother	amod
49	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 one	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 one	punct
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 told	aux
52	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 told	aux
53	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 out	conj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 difference	det
55	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 told	iobj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 out	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Shifty Lad			the look out		tree rules
2	hide	past		Lad		the wood		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in wood=Location
3	draw	past	the man	the moment not said here			with the kid on Lad's shoulders; near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moment=Theme
4	begin	past	the moment					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	bleat	to-infinitive	the moment not said here				like a sheep	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not mother		the sheep					tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	could · perfect · passive		no one and own mother	the difference			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient difference=Topic

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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