The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 9

And he gaed a’ that day, and a’ the next day; and on the third day, in the afternoon, he came up to where a shepherd was sitting with a flock o’ sheep.

Who acts: man, shepherd · What happens: ga, come up, sit · To what, where: ’, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, shepherd), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 gaed	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gaed	nsubj
3	gaed	ga	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ’	det
5	’	'	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obj
6	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl:unmarked
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 day	det
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gaed	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 came	cc
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 day	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 day	det
19	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 afternoon	punct
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 afternoon	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 afternoon	det
24	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 day	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 day	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gaed	conj
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 came	advmod
29	to	to	SCONJ	_	34 sitting	mark
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 sitting	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 shepherd	det
32	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sitting	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 sitting	aux
34	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 came	advcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 o	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 o	det
37	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 o	compound
38	o	o	NOUN	_	34 sitting	obl
39	’	'	PUNCT	_	38 o	punct
40	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sitting	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gaed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	ga	past	man	a ’	day		tree rules
2	come up	past	man		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sit	past · progressive	a shepherd	sheep		with a flock o	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sheep=Theme

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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