The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 73

However, it happened that an old and humpbacked shepherd passed the tree with his flock, and seeing the prisoner, he stopped and said to him, ‘Tell me, my son why are you tied to that tree?’

Who acts: it, old shepherd, shepherd · What happens: happen, pass, see, stop, say, tell · To what, where: tree, prisoner, shepherd, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, old shepherd, 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	However	however	ADV	_	4 happened	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 However	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happened	nsubj
4	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 passed	mark
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 shepherd	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 shepherd	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 humpbacked	cc
9	humpbacked	humpbacked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 old	conj
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	nsubj
11	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 flock	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 flock	nmod:poss
16	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 stopped	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stopped	cc
19	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 stopped	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 prisoner	det
21	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 seeing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 seeing	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 stopped	nsubj
24	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 happened	parataxis
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 said	cc
26	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 stopped	conj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 him	case
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 said	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Tell	punct
30	‘	'	PUNCT	_	31 Tell	punct
31	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 said	ccomp
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 Tell	iobj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 son	punct
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 son	nmod:poss
35	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Tell	vocative
36	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	39 tied	advmod
37	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 tied	aux:pass
38	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	39 tied	nsubj
39	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 Tell	advcl
40	to	to	ADP	_	42 tree	case
41	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 tree	det
42	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tied	obl
43	?	?	PUNCT	_	31 Tell	punct
44	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			however property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	past	a old shepherd	the tree		with shepherd's flock	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tree=Trajectory
3	see	gerund	shepherd not said here	the prisoner			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prisoner=Stimulus
4	stop	past	shepherd				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
5	say speech: assert	past	shepherd not said here		shepherd		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to he=Experiencer clause=Topic
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me	my son vocative	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
7	tie	present · passive		you		to that tree	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient to tree=Co-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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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