The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 78

This was soon done, and then the young man drove off the sheep, leaving their real shepherd to repent of his folly; and before he had gone very far he met with a horse boy and a driver of oxen, and he persuaded them to turn with him and to seek for adventures.

Who acts: young man, man, oxen · What happens: do, drive off, leave, repent, go, meet · To what, where: This, sheep, real shepherd, oxen

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 (young man, man, oxen), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 done	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux:pass
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 done	advmod
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 drove	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 drove	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 drove	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drove	nsubj
11	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	14 sheep	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drove	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 leaving	punct
16	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 drove	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 shepherd	nmod:poss
18	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 shepherd	amod
19	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 leaving	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 repent	mark
21	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 leaving	advcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 folly	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 folly	nmod:poss
24	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 repent	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 gone	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 gone	cc
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	30 gone	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 gone	nsubj
29	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	aux
30	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 done	parataxis
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 far	advmod
32	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 met	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 met	nsubj
34	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 gone	advcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 boy	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 boy	det
37	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boy	compound
38	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 met	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 driver	cc
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 driver	det
41	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 boy	conj
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 oxen	case
43	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 driver	nmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 persuaded	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 persuaded	cc
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 persuaded	nsubj
47	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	advcl
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 persuaded	obj
49	to	to	PART	_	50 turn	mark
50	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 persuaded	xcomp
51	with	with	ADP	_	52 him	case
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 turn	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 seek	cc
54	to	to	PART	_	55 seek	mark
55	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 turn	conj
56	for	for	ADP	_	57 adventures	case
57	adventures	adventure	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 seek	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · passive		This		soon property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	drive off	past	the young man	the sheep	then		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme
3	leave	gerund	the young man not said here	sheep's real shepherd			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Theme
4	repent	to-infinitive	the young man not said here			of man's folly	tree rules
5	go	past · perfect	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	meet	past	man			with a horse boy and a driver of oxen; far property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with boy=Co-Agent
7	persuade	past	man	oxen = ox			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Patient clause=Result
8	turn	to-infinitive	oxen = ox not said here			with man	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	seek	to-infinitive	oxen = ox not said here			for adventures	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for adventure=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 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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