The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 14

The young shepherd led his flock out to the richest meadows and stayed with them till evening, when he brought them back, and helped the man to milk them.

Who acts: young shepherd, shepherd · What happens: lead out, stay, bring back, help · To what, where: flock, richest meadows, meadows, man

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mogarzea and His Son. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young shepherd, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shepherd	amod
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	nsubj
4	led	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 flock	nmod:poss
6	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 led	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 led	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 meadows	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meadows	det
10	richest	rich	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 meadows	amod
11	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 led	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stayed	cc
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stayed	obl
16	till	till	ADP	_	17 evening	case
17	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stayed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 brought	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
21	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	21 brought	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 helped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 helped	cc
26	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 led	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 man	det
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 helped	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 milk	mark
30	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 man	conj
31	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 milk	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 led	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead out	past	the young shepherd	shepherd's flock		the richest meadows		out property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flock=Theme to meadow=Destination
2	stay	past	the young shepherd not said here				evening	with meadows = meadow	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with they=Location
3	bring back	past	shepherd	meadows = meadow					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	help	past			the man and milk meadows				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary

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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