The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 39

But one evening when the moon was full they sat together watching their flocks, and the shepherd played upon his flute.

Who acts: moon, friends, shepherd · What happens: be, sit, watch, play · To what, where: flocks

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 (moon, friends, shepherd), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 full	cc
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 evening	nummod
3	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	obl:unmarked
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 full	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moon	det
6	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sat	nsubj
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	ccomp
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
12	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 flocks	nmod:poss
14	flocks	flock	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 watching	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 played	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 played	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 shepherd	det
18	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 played	nsubj
19	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sat	conj
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 flute	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 flute	nmod:poss
22	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 played	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the moon		evening	full property	tree rules
2	sit	past	friends = friend			together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	watch	gerund	friends = friend not said here	friends's flocks			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Theme
4	play	past	the shepherd			upon shepherd's flute	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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