The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 54

Maiden Bright-eye thanked the little bergman ever so often, and drove home her sheep in the evening.

Who acts: Maiden · What happens: thank, drive · To what, where: little bergman, sheep

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Maiden), 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	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thanked	nsubj
2	Bright	Bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Maiden	flat
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 eye	punct
4	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Maiden	appos
5	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bergman	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bergman	amod
8	bergman	bergman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thanked	obj
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 thanked	advmod
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 often	advmod
11	often	often	ADV	_	5 thanked	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drove	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 drove	cc
14	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thanked	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 drove	advmod
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sheep	nmod:poss
17	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 drove	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 evening	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 evening	det
20	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drove	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	Maiden	the little bergman			ever	often property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bergman=Theme
2	drive	past	Maiden not said here	world's sheep			evening	home property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/31/54/