The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 80
A shepherd stood on a mound watching over them, and by his side was a dog, as large as a horse nine winters old.
Who acts: shepherd, mound · What happens: stand, watch, be · To what, where: mound, dog
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, mound), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 mound | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mound | det |
| 6 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 7 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mound | acl |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watching | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dog | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dog | cc |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 side | nmod:poss |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dog | obl |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dog | cop |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 large | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADV | _ | 20 large | advmod |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 horse | det |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 large | obl |
| 24 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 winters | nummod |
| 25 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 old | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 large | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a shepherd | a mound | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on mound=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a mound not said here | over comrade | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over they=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | past | a dog | by shepherd's side | 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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