The Violet Fairy Book, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground, sentence 10
The shepherd let himself be persuaded so to do, took a skin having a golden fleece, sewed the young man in it, putting in also food and drink, and so brought him before the king.
Who acts: shepherd, skin · What happens: let, persuade, do, take, have, sew · To what, where: shepherd, skin, golden fleece, young man, fleece, food
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Who Was Hidden Underground. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, skin), 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 | 3 let | nsubj |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 6 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 let | xcomp |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 do | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 persuaded | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 skin | det |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 14 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 skin | acl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fleece | det |
| 16 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 fleece | amod |
| 17 | fleece | fleece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 having | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sewed | punct |
| 19 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sewed | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sewed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 putting | punct |
| 26 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sewed | advcl |
| 27 | in | in | ADV | _ | 26 putting | advmod |
| 28 | also | also | ADV | _ | 29 food | advmod |
| 29 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 putting | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 drink | cc |
| 31 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 food | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brought | cc |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 brought | advmod |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 took | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | before | before | ADP | _ | 39 king | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 king | det |
| 39 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 brought | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | infinitive | the shepherd | shepherd | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | persuade | infinitive · passive | shepherd not said here | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | shepherd not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | a skin | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | gerund | a skin not said here | a golden fleece | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fleece=Patient | ||||
| 6 | sew | past | the young man | fleece | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme in it=Destination | ||||
| 7 | put in | gerund | food and drink | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent food=Goal | |||||
| 8 | bring | past | shepherd | before the king | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme before king=Destination |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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