The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 34
So they herded their sheep for many years in solitude and sadness.
Who acts: frog · What happens: herd · To what, where: sheep
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 herded | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 herded | nsubj |
| 3 | herded | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 herded | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 years | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 years | amod |
| 8 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 herded | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 solitude | case |
| 10 | solitude | solitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 years | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sadness | cc |
| 12 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 solitude | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 herded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | herd | past | frog | frog's sheep | year | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient |
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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