The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 46

Again the Shifty Lad, who was on the watch, perceived him pass by, and when he saw the man returning with the great bull he cried to the Black Rogue:

Who acts: Shifty Lad, shepherd, man · What happens: be, perceive, pass by, see, return, cry · To what, where: watch, shepherd, man, great bull, Black Rogue

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, shepherd, man), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 Lad	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	12 perceived	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 watch	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 watch	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 watch	cop
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 watch	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 watch	det
10	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Lad	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Lad	punct
12	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perceived	obj
14	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 perceived	xcomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	14 pass	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saw	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 saw	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 saw	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 saw	nsubj
20	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 perceived	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 man	det
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 saw	obj
23	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 man	acl
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 bull	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bull	det
26	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bull	amod
27	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 returning	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cried	nsubj
29	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bull	acl:relcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 Rogue	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Rogue	det
32	Black	Black	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Rogue	compound
33	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 cried	obl
34	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 perceived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Shifty Lad			the watch		tree rules
2	perceive	past	the Shifty Lad	shepherd				vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute
3	pass by	infinitive	the Shifty Lad not said here					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past	shepherd	the man				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus
5	return	gerund	the man not said here				with the great bull	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	shepherd	the great bull not said here	the Black Rogue			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bull=Topic to rogue=Recipient

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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