The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 136
Now, on a hill near by there was a swineherd looking after a great herd of pigs and whistling merrily.
Who acts: swineherd · What happens: be, look, whistle · To what, where: hill
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swineherd), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 was | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 hill | det |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | obl |
| 6 | near | near | ADV | _ | 5 hill | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 near | fixed |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 was | expl |
| 9 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 swineherd | det |
| 11 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 was | nsubj |
| 12 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 swineherd | acl |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 herd | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 herd | amod |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 looking | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 pigs | case |
| 18 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 herd | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whistling | cc |
| 20 | whistling | whistle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 looking | conj |
| 21 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 20 whistling | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a swineherd | a hill; there | now | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | a swineherd not said here | after a great herd of pigs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | whistle | gerund | a swineherd not said here | merrily property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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