The Violet Fairy Book, Mogarzea and His Son, sentence 34
At sunrise the boy got up and led his sheep out to feed, and for some reason he did not feel tempted to cross into the grassy meadows belonging to the elves, but let his flock pick up what pasture they could on Mogarzea’s dry ground.
Who acts: boy, grassy meadows, flock · What happens: get up, lead out, feed, not feel, tempt, cross · To what, where: sheep, grassy meadows, flock
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 (boy, grassy meadows, flock), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sunrise | case |
| 2 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 boy | det |
| 4 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 led | cc |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 led | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 feed | mark |
| 13 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 led | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 feel | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 feel | cc |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 reason | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 reason | det |
| 18 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 feel | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 feel | nsubj |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 feel | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 feel | advmod |
| 22 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 got | parataxis |
| 23 | tempted | tempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 feel | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 cross | mark |
| 25 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 tempted | xcomp |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 meadows | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 meadows | det |
| 28 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 meadows | amod |
| 29 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cross | obl |
| 30 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 meadows | acl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 elves | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 elves | det |
| 33 | elves | elf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 belonging | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 let | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 let | cc |
| 36 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 feel | conj |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 flock | nmod:poss |
| 38 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 let | obj |
| 39 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 let | xcomp |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 pick | compound:prt |
| 41 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 42 pasture | det |
| 42 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 could | nsubj |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 could | nsubj |
| 44 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 pick | advcl |
| 45 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 ground | case |
| 46 | Mogarzea | Mogarzea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 ground | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 Mogarzea | case |
| 48 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ground | amod |
| 49 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 could | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the boy | sunrise | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lead out | past | the boy not said here | boy's sheep | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | the boy not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not feel | past · do-support | boy | for some reason | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | tempt | participle | boy not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | cross | to-infinitive | boy not said here | the grassy meadows | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into meadow=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | belong | gerund | the grassy meadows not said here | to the elves | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | let | infinitive | boy not said here | boy's flock | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | pick up | infinitive | boy's flock not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: 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 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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