The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 37
So he brought his sheep there, and herded them as before.
Who acts: shepherdess · What happens: bring, 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 (shepherdess), 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 brought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brought | obj |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brought | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 herded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 herded | cc |
| 9 | herded | herd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | conj |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 herded | obj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 before | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 9 herded | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | shepherdess | shepherdess's sheep | there | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument sheep=Destination | |||
| 2 | herd | past | shepherdess not said here | sheep | before property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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