The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 106

At sunrise he collected his herd carefully and led them to the rich pasture which lay along the borders of the forest, cutting himself a hazel wand with which to keep them in order.

Who acts: Peronnik, rich pasture · What happens: collect, lead, lie, cut, keep · To what, where: herd, cattle, rich pasture, borders, Peronnik, order

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peronnik, rich pasture), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 sunrise	case
2	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 collected	nsubj
4	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 herd	nmod:poss
6	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obj
7	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	4 collected	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 led	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 pasture	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pasture	det
13	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pasture	amod
14	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lay	nsubj
16	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 pasture	acl:relcl
17	along	along	ADP	_	19 borders	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 borders	det
19	borders	border	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lay	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 forest	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 forest	det
22	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 borders	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cutting	punct
24	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 led	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 cutting	obj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 wand	det
27	hazel	hazel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wand	amod
28	wand	wand	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 keep	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 keep	mark
32	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 wand	acl:relcl
33	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 keep	obj
34	in	in	ADP	_	35 order	case
35	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 keep	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	past	Peronnik	Peronnik's herd		sunrise	carefully property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
2	lead	past	Peronnik not said here	cattle	the rich pasture			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to pasture=Destination
3	lie	past	the rich pasture		the borders of the forest			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along border=Location
4	cut	gerund	Peronnik not said here	Peronnik				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary wand=Product
5	keep	to-infinitive	Peronnik not said here	cattle	order		with a hazel wand	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Location

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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