The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 71

To complete the resemblance, her flock of sheep appeared, grazing round her, and she found a gay crook adorned with flowers upon the bank of the river.

Who acts: flock, Princess · What happens: complete, appear, graze, find, adorn · To what, where: resemblance, gay crook

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (flock, Princess), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 complete	mark
2	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 appeared	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 resemblance	det
4	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complete	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 flock	punct
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 flock	nmod:poss
7	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 appeared	nsubj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 sheep	case
9	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flock	nmod
10	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grazing	punct
12	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 appeared	advcl
13	round	round	ADP	_	14 her	case
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grazing	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 found	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 found	cc
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 found	nsubj
18	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 appeared	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 crook	det
20	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 crook	amod
21	crook	crook	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 found	obj
22	adorned	adorn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 crook	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 flowers	case
24	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 adorned	obl
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 bank	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bank	det
27	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 adorned	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 river	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 river	det
30	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bank	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	complete	to-infinitive	Princess's flock of sheep not said here	the resemblance		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resemblance=Eventuality
2	appear	past	Princess's flock of sheep			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	graze	gerund	Princess's flock of sheep not said here		round Princess	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	find	past	Princess	a gay crook		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crook=Topic
5	adorn	participle		a gay crook not said here	with flowers; upon the bank of the river	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with flower=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 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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