The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 34

“As she spoke she advanced, and led me to this plain where we now stand, and showed me her flock, but I paid little attention to it or to her.

Who acts: Madam, we, Miranda · What happens: speak, lead, stand, show, pay · To what, where: person, Miranda, plain, flock, little attention, attention · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Sheep, 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 (Madam, we, Miranda), 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	_	4 spoke	punct
2	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 spoke	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	nsubj
4	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spoke	obj
6	advanced	advanced	ADV	_	4 spoke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 led	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 led	cc
9	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spoke	conj
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 led	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 plain	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 plain	det
13	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 led	obl
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	17 stand	advmod
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 stand	nsubj
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	17 stand	advmod
17	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 plain	acl:relcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 showed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 showed	cc
20	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 led	parataxis
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 showed	iobj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 flock	nmod:poss
23	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 showed	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 paid	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 paid	cc
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 paid	nsubj
27	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 showed	conj
28	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 attention	amod
29	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 paid	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 paid	obl
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 her	cc
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 her	case
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 paid	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spoke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other in a quote	past	Madam	person				advanced property	tree rules
2	lead in a quote	past	Madam not said here	Miranda		this plain			vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to plain=Destination
3	stand in a quote	present	we				now		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show in a quote	past		Madam's flock	Miranda				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient flock=Topic
5	pay in a quote	past	Miranda	little attention	attention				vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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