The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1, sentence 80

“Here is a sheep that can talk.”

Who acts: sheep · What happens: be, talk

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sheep), 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	_	2 Here	punct
2	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 Here	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Here	nsubj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 talk	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 talk	aux
8	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sheep	acl:relcl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	a sheep					here property	tree rules
2	talk in a quote	can	a sheep						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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