The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 17
Shortly after this they took the black sheep from the flock and slaughtered it.
Who acts: man · What happens: take, slaughter · To what, where: black sheep, flock
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 took | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Shortly | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sheep | det |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sheep | amod |
| 8 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 flock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flock | det |
| 11 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slaughtered | cc |
| 13 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 slaughtered | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | man | the black sheep | the flock | shortly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme from flock=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | slaughter | past | man not said here | flock | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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