The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 42
The shepherd could hardly believe his eyes when he returned from seeking the sheep and found that the kid had vanished.
Who acts: shepherd, kid · What happens: believe, return, seek, find, vanish · To what, where: eyes, sheep
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, kid), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 believe | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | aux |
| 4 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 believe | advmod |
| 5 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 believe | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 returned | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 believe | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 12 seeking | mark |
| 12 | seeking | seek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sheep | det |
| 14 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 seeking | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 found | cc |
| 16 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 returned | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 vanished | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 kid | det |
| 19 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 vanished | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 vanished | aux |
| 21 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 found | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | could | the shepherd | shepherd's eyes | hardly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | return | past | shepherd | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | seek | gerund | shepherd not said here | the sheep | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | past | shepherd not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | vanish | past · perfect | the kid | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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