The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 55
In order to gain a living he looked after the sheep of a great Lord.
Who acts: BOY · What happens: gain, look · To what, where: living
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (BOY), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 4 gain | mark |
| 2 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 In | fixed |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 gain | mark |
| 4 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 living | det |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gain | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looked | nsubj |
| 8 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 living | acl:relcl |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 sheep | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sheep | det |
| 11 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looked | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Lord | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Lord | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Lord | amod |
| 15 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sheep | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gain | to-infinitive | a living | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | BOY | a living not said here | after the sheep of a great Lord | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme living=Attribute |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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