The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 88

Now the Lord whose sheep the Herd-boy looked after had a very lovely daughter, who always smiled and nodded to the youth when she walked with her father in his fields.

Who acts: Lord sheep, lovely daughter, company · What happens: look, have, smile, nod, walk · To what, where: lovely daughter, youth, fields

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 (Lord sheep, lovely daughter, company), 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	10 looked	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
3	Lord	Lord	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sheep	compound
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	5 sheep	nmod:poss
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 looked	nsubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
7	Herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Herd	punct
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looked	nsubj
10	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	after	after	SCONJ	_	12 had	mark
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 looked	ccomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 daughter	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 lovely	advmod
15	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 daughter	amod
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 smiled	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 smiled	nsubj
19	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	20 smiled	advmod
20	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 daughter	acl:relcl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 nodded	cc
22	nodded	nod	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 smiled	conj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 youth	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 youth	det
25	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 nodded	obl
26	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	28 walked	advmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 walked	nsubj
28	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 nodded	advcl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 father	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 father	nmod:poss
31	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 walked	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 fields	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 fields	nmod:poss
34	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 walked	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the Lord sheep				now		tree rules
2	have	past	the Lord sheep not said here	a lovely daughter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
3	smile	past	a lovely daughter					always property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	nod	past	a lovely daughter not said here		the youth				vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to youth=Recipient
5	walk	past	company			BOY's fields		with company's father	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in field=Trajectory

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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