The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 52

The shepherd was walking slowly, driving the bull before him, when he suddenly heard a loud baa amongst the bushes far away on one side of the path, and a feeble bleat answering it from the other side.

Who acts: shepherd, feeble bleat · What happens: walk, drive, hear, answer · To what, where: bull, loud baa, bleat, other side

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, feeble bleat), 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	4 walking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 driving	punct
7	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 walking	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bull	det
9	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driving	obj
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 driving	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 heard	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 heard	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 heard	nsubj
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
16	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 baa	det
18	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 baa	amod
19	baa	baa	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 heard	obj
20	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	22 bushes	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 bushes	det
22	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 heard	obl
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 away	advmod
24	away	away	ADV	_	16 heard	advmod
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 side	nummod
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 away	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 path	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 path	det
30	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 side	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 bleat	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 bleat	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 bleat	det
34	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 bleat	amod
35	bleat	bleat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	parataxis
36	answering	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 bleat	acl
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 answering	obj
38	from	from	ADP	_	41 side	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 side	det
40	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 side	amod
41	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 answering	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	the shepherd				slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drive	gerund	the shepherd not said here	the bull		before shepherd		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bull=Theme before he=Destination
3	hear	past	shepherd	a loud baa			amongst the bushes; away, suddenly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baa=Stimulus
4	answer speech: assert	gerund	a feeble bleat not said here	bleat	the other side			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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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