The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 54

‘Yes, surely it must’; and tying the bull hastily to a tree, he went off after the sheep and the kid, and searched the wood till he was tired.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: tie, go off, search, be · To what, where: bull, wood

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), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 must	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 must	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	surely	surely	ADV	_	6 must	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 must	nsubj
6	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 went	aux
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 must	punct
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 went	cc
10	tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 went	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bull	det
12	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tying	obj
13	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	10 tying	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 tree	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 tree	det
16	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hastily	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tying	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 went	nsubj
19	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 went	compound:prt
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 sheep	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 sheep	det
23	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 went	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 kid	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 kid	det
26	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sheep	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 searched	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 searched	cc
29	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 went	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 wood	det
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 searched	obj
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 tired	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 tired	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 tired	cop
35	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 searched	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tie	gerund	shepherd not said here	the bull		hastily property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bull=Patient
2	go off	must	shepherd		after the sheep and the kid		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
3	search	past	shepherd not said here	the wood			vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent wood=Location
4	is	past	shepherd			tired property	tree rules

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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