The Blue Fairy Book, The Wonderful Sheep, part 2, sentence 59
The King of the Sheep, with the help of all the flock, got up balls, concerts, and hunting parties, and even the shadows joined in all the fun, and came, making believe to be their own real selves.
Who acts: King, shadows · What happens: get up, hunt, join, come, make, believe · To what, where: balls, own real selves, flock · 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 (King, shadows), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 got | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Sheep | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Sheep | det |
| 5 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 help | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 help | det |
| 9 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Sheep | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 flock | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 flock | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flock | det |
| 13 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 got | compound:prt |
| 17 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 concerts | punct |
| 19 | concerts | concert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 balls | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 parties | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 parties | cc |
| 22 | hunting | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 parties | amod |
| 23 | parties | party | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 got | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 joined | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 joined | cc |
| 26 | even | even | ADV | _ | 28 shadows | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shadows | det |
| 28 | shadows | shadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 joined | nsubj |
| 29 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 fun | case |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 fun | det:predet |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 fun | det |
| 33 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 joined | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 came | cc |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 making | punct |
| 38 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 came | advcl |
| 39 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 making | xcomp |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 selves | mark |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 45 selves | cop |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 selves | nmod:poss |
| 43 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 selves | amod |
| 44 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 selves | amod |
| 45 | selves | self | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 believe | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the King of the Sheep and the help of all flock | balls and concerts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hunt | gerund | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | join | past | the shadows | in all fun | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fun=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the King of the Sheep and the help of all flock not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make | gerund | the King of the Sheep and the help of all flock not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | believe | infinitive | the King of the Sheep and the help of all flock not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is a | to-infinitive | Sheep's own real selves | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | help | all flock | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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