The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 38

The shepherd and shepherdess became great friends, but they did not recognise each other in the least.

Who acts: shepherd, friends · What happens: become, not recognise · To what, where: great friends, each, least

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 (shepherd, friends), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 shepherd	det
2	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shepherdess	cc
4	shepherdess	shepherdess	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shepherd	conj
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 friends	amod
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 became	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 recognise	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 recognise	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 recognise	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 recognise	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 recognise	advmod
13	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 became	conj
14	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 recognise	obj
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 each	fixed
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 least	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 least	det
18	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 recognise	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the shepherd and shepherdess	great friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	not recognise	past · do-support	friends = friend	each		the least			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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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